__i386__ and cpp (Correction)

[Ulrich Drepper]

hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:

> > __i386__ has been dropped from cpp in 1996. It
> > causes a problem for imake since it calls cpp
> > directly. It would be nice for egcs 1.0.2 to
> > define __i386__ on all x86 platforms.
> > 
> 
> Ooops. It should be i386 is checked by imake.

So why do you mention imake if it checks i386 and you want to get
__i386__ back?  I don't understand.  __i386__ cannot be a typo since
i386 is defined in the specs.

In fact, i386 is a problem since it violates the namespace.  You
cannot get a ISO C compliant environment with gcc/egcs as it is.

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