Get rid of underscore.c

Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
Sun Sep 22 05:16:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Fergus Henderson wrote:

> On 21-Sep-2002, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> wrote:
> > Why not just add cxxfilt.c somewhere in gcc too?  Why can't it
> > live in both binutils and gcc?  Does the duplicate source really
> > hurt that bad?  (It could just be that stupid main function.)
>
> Duplicated *binaries* would be a problem for package systems (Debian, RPM,
> etc.), wouldn't they?

And they've managed that precise problem for quite some time
now, haven't they?  To not install c++filt from both gcc and
binutils would actually be a change that they'd now have to cope
with.

brgds, H-P



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