gen-params problem

[Ulrich Drepper]

sxthree@penfeld.tls.mms.fr (SXTHREE) writes:

> Since some OSes do not perform a final link (do not
> produce an executable, but instead an object that may
> still contain relocations) we should not rely on that
> behaviour.

Which OSes do you refer to?

The mechanism to use linking is used in all GNU packages.  There
shouldn't be a problem except for embedded platforms which will be
treated special.

> Since when _G_HAVE_PRINTF_FP is defined, printf.h
> is included (in iostream.cc), we should check for 
> the presence of this file.

This is not ok since the header is also present in some situations
where the function is not available.

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