Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90

John David Anglin dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Thu Jun 6 11:05:00 GMT 2002


> Do you mean that "extended ansi behavior" is required to compile GCC
> in its current state?

For 32-bit, the bundled HP compiler is sufficient.  For 64-bit, the
unbundled compiler is currently required.  The exact cause of the
problem in building a 64-bit target with the bundled compiler
hasn't been fully debugged although I think it has to do with using
enums as array indexes.

I'm not against binaries and they are currently more or less necessary
to bootstrap with ada.  I don't think anybody has built ada for a
64-bit hpux11 target because of the complex bootstrap issues.

Personally, I feel that not a lot will be gained by converting.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc.ca
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