What's the deal with MD_CALL_PROTOTYPES ?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199908101743.NAA21180@caip.rutgers.edu >you write:
  > 	So I'm prototyping stuff in insn-* and I notice that the macro
  > MD_CALL_PROTOTYPES wraps gen_call() and gen_call_value() in
  > insn-flags.h.  The docs says this:
  > 
  >  > `MD_CALL_PROTOTYPES'
  >  >      Define this if you wish to generate prototypes for the `gen_call'
  >  >      or `gen_call_value' functions generated from the machine
  >  >      description file.  If `USE_PROTOTYPES' is defined to be 0, or the
  >  >      host compiler does not support prototypes, or `NO_MD_PROTOTYPES'
  >  >      is defined, this macro has no effect.  As soon as all of the
  >  >      machine descriptions are modified to have the appropriate number
  >  >      of arguments, this macro will be removed.
  > 
  > So I was wondering can it be removed?  Judging from the insn-flags.h
  > vs insn-emit.c output, it looks like Irix6 gets it right, but not
  > solaris2.
I'd prefer not to remove it.  Instead we should be looking to fix the various
backends so that we can enable prototypes for the gen_call* functions.


jeff