GCC headers and DJGPP port

Eli Zaretskii eliz@delorie.com
Mon Jul 17 11:34:00 GMT 2000


> From: Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:36:53 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Let it install and use its own headers, remove your headers, and fix
> the port, if any of the bits are wrong.

Sorry, I don't understand how can this ever work reliably.  Some of
the definitions provided by the headers that GCC wants to install are
closely related to the library.  I don't see how can GCC provide
definitions that will never conflict with library internals.  Please
tell what am I missing.

> A sure sign of a non-maintained port, is a system with its own
> vararg.h...

How about a system with its own stddef.h?  Standard types such as
size_t, wchar_t, the definition of NULL -- these are surely closely
related to the internals of a library, right?  And GCC has no means of
knowing how to define these correctly for the library, right?


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