PATCH: Support for Pascal strings -- Take 2

[Ziemowit Laski]

On Sunday, July 1, 2001, at 10:57 , Mark Mitchell wrote:

> I am not in favor on a technical basis.  Too much complication for too
> little win.

I'm not sure how one would quantify a "win" in this case. :)  At present,
it is true that the applicability of the patch is limited to MacOS, 
though
presumably this could change if/when GNU Pascal comes into being.  Also,
I guess I would not consider the patch to be excessively complicated,
though reasonable people can disagree on this (and I certainly respect
your view here).
>
> Stan often points out that there are political issues here, too, 
> regarding
> Apple maintaining it's own version of GCC.  However, if there is going
> to be an FSF mandate to incorporate Apple changes for the sake of
> eliminating the Apple fork, then we need to get that message from the 
> FSF;
> it's not for us to judge as GCC maintainers.

This is certainly a fair question, and one that Stan (who's out of town
today) can probably address.   I certainly can't. :(

--Zem

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