ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h

Jeff Sturm jsturm@one-point.com
Thu Jan 24 18:13:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, mike stump wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > > It isn't supposed to be doing that.
> 
> > I have to say this... the K&R rule is preposterous for code specific
> > to targets that never had a K&R compiler, e.g. Cygwin.  Why waste
> > any energy on a non-problem?
> 
> You seem to think that build == host == target, while that might be
> try some of the time, it isn't true all of the time.

No, I think build == host == target if you are bootstrapping, else you'd
better be building with gcc anyway.

Building a cross compiler with a K&R cc simply doesn't work except in very
limited cases.

Jeff



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