__i386__ and cpp (Correction)

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> 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.
> 

We can try to make XFree86 to check __i386__. But we should give
something to imake to check within cpp.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)