HPPA STMP_FIXPROTO patch

[Jeff Law]

In message <200208281642.JAA21591@hpsje.cup.hp.com>, Steve Ellcey writes:
 >I have been building the PA32 and PA64 HP-UX 11.* compilers for a while
 >now with STMP_FIXPROTO set to null and have had no problems.  Doing this
 >avoids creating some extra GCC specific header files because some
 >headers do still contain un-prototyped declarations but GCC will never
 >see them due to the predefined macros that are set when running GCC.
 >
 >Setting STMP_FIXPROTO avoids unnecessarily creating modified versions of
 >those header files.
 >
 >I found a makefile fragment, t-bsd, that sets STMP_FIXPROTO to nothing
 >and doesn't do anything else so I used it in my patch.  I suppose we
 >could create a new file or change the name of this t-* file if we didn't
 >like using a "bsd" makefile fragment on HP-UX but a number of other
 >targets already use it (-pro*, -osf* -rtems*).
 >
 >Comments?
 >
 >
 >2002-08-27  Steve Ellcey  <sje@cup.hp.com>
 >
 >	* config.gcc (hppa*64*-*-hpux11*): Add t-bsd to makefile.
 >	(hppa1.1-*-hpux11* | hppa2*-*-hpux11*): Ditto.
 >	(hppa1.0-*-hpux11*): Ditto.
Well, I'd like to install this, but it makes me very nervous given the
multitude of problems we've had with the HP include files in the past.

What end-user value do we get by installing this patch?


jeff