mknumeric_limits

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:

| I trust Benjamin and Gabriel will correct any mistakes I'm about to make. :-)
| 
| On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:01:44AM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
| > First, it seems rather odd to be using "uname" like that, unless this code
| > is supposed to be run on the build machine.
| > 
| > Second, by using uname instead of a triplet, we lose the ability to
| > select behavior on the triplet.  This is important when you consider
| > systems like the PA which have two completely different toolchains that
| > can not interoperate with each other.
| 
| That fragment predates just about everything else, such as configure.host
| and configure.target, which are recent and use triplets.

Phil is right, mknumeric_limits goes back to early 1999 when we were
doing things the hard way.

| ... mknumeric_limits
| could be changed to use those, or maybe could call the generated tests_flags
| script.  (Gaby? Sanity check?)

Any patch is welcome.

-- Gaby
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