Move more predefined macros

Phil Edwards phil@jaj.com
Thu May 16 15:03:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:40:43PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> You can't stringify the expansion of a macro in traditional C.  If
> __VERSION__ were never used in the code compiled by stage1/cc1, this
> would be harmless; however, it is used (in toplev.c and m68hc11.c).
> Therefore, we'd get bootstrap failures starting from a K+R compiler.

Reason #21793 to ditch the K&R bootstrap requirement.  :-)

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