strtoul vs g77

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199709190627.CAA28904@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu >you write:
  > I hope this all works.  It'd be a *huge* relief if it did.  As
  > any of you might observe in my commentary in gcc/f/proj.c, we
  > *did* attempt to do this a couple of years ago (or so -- has it
  > been that long?!).
Yes, it was a comment dated sometime in 1995.

  > The effect worked on SunOS systems IIRC, but
  > it *broke* the configuration on some systems that *did* have a
  > working ANSI C library, complete with bsearch() and strtoul(),
  > and we couldn't figure out why.
Well, that's what we have autoconf for -- if it doesn't work on
some system that has bsearch and/or strtoul, then we'll go fix
autoconf.  This is precisely the kind of problem autoconf should
be solving for us.

  > So maybe enough time has passed and bugs in tools we were relying
  > upon (autoconf, ld, shells, sed, who knows what ;-) have been
  > fixed.
Or autoconf is just better at hiding many of the details of those
broken tools from us; which is just as good as far as I'm concerned.

jeff