cpplib: Nix -g3.

Zack Weinberg zackw@Stanford.EDU
Thu Jan 11 00:57:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:58:53PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> 
> > There was a very good reason for this which I don't remember anymore.
> > I think it might have had to do with the printer not being set up
> > early enough, so it would crash.
> 
> I think you might be right about the printing.  Anyway, that problem
> is no more.  Cool, another kludge we can eliminate.
> 
> The only issue is where this stuff shows up the in preprocessed output
> - the line numbering might be screwy, giving problems with a re-read
> and -fpreprocessed.  Maybe that was a reason?

That too might've been something to do with.  IIRC we're supposed to
spit out 

# 1 "file.c"

in between each builtin macro definition.  1 might have been 0.  This
was a very long time ago.

zw


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