strtoul vs g77

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < rzqzpp9dlyv.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk >you write:
  > Yes.  The only reason it wasn't just fixed or noted somewhere as a
  > problem was lack of a proper bug report; I think the information got
  > lost about what system it was on.
Well, if it crops up again, we'll be able to get a full report and
deal with it.

  > Assuming you did it the same way as originally, it's fine for cross
  > situations (insofar as the rest of things are); you necessarily have
  > the tools available when the configuration test is done because you're
  > about to build f771.
Basically, yes, though marginally simpler.  The code in proj.c has
#ifndef BLAH conditionals around it rather than dealing with FFEPROJ_BLAH

  > What would be nice would be if we could pick up stuff from libiberty
  > so that the appropriate routines were just available anyhow (possibly
  > even for the target by adding them to libgcc.a if appropriate).  I
  > initially thought that was why libiberty was included.
It's in the back of my mind :-) :-)

jeff