ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h

Jeff Sturm jsturm@one-point.com
Fri Jan 25 11:45:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Richard Kenner wrote:
> We want all of GCC to look very similar and use the same style.
> >From a pragmatic point of view, we want to feel free to copy code from
> one file to the other.

GCC is beginning to look silly for insisting on an archaic style for the
(increasingly fewer) ports that need it.  But I don't wish to start
another flame war on the subject.  We know it's a bootstrapping problem,
for which there are other solutions.

> Indeed, in this case you are *wrong*!  i386/cygwin.h is a *target*
> file and you can easily make a cross-compiler from a *host* that has
> K&R to the Cygwin target.  You'd have a much stronger case with 
> xm-cygwin.h, but even then I'd disagree.

Nobody should be building a cross-compiler with anything but gcc.

As I understand it, we only support K&R for building a stage1 compiler,
and nothing else.  That's why we close so many bug reports with RTFM and
"make bootstrap".

Jeff



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