[3.0 critical] Make fixproto deal with assert.h

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:28:45AM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > 	* libgcc-std.ver, libgcc2.c, libgcc2.h, sys-protos.h: 
> > 	Remove __eprintf.
> 
> You'll need a note in caveats.html about incompatibility with static
> libraries that used assert and were compiled with an old version of GCC
> that installed its own assert.h.  This being a better long-term solution
> than the existing inability to link with such libraries with the vendor
> compiler.

How's this?

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Index: gcc-3.0/caveats.html
--- gcc-3.0/caveats.html	2001/05/04 12:13:10	1.2
+++ gcc-3.0/caveats.html	2001/05/11 04:54:24
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@
 
   <li>The Chill compiler is not included in GCC 3.0, because of the
   lack of a volunteer to convert it to use garbage collection.</li>
+
+  <li>Several obsolete routines have been removed from
+  <code>libgcc.a</code> in order to ensure that its ABI will remain
+  stable in the future.  Static libraries built by previous versions
+  of GCC may reference these routines, and therefore cannot be used
+  with GCC 3.0.  The most commonly used one of these symbols is
+  <code>__eprintf</code>.  Such libraries need to be rebuilt with the
+  new compiler.
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