Killing fixproto (possible target obsoletion)
Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com
Mon Jun 6 14:09:00 GMT 2005
E. Weddington wrote:
> Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>
>> Propose to stop using fixproto immediately:
>>
>> avr-*-*
>>
>>
>
> I'm not even sure exactly what fixproto is supposed to do, but I
> *highly* doubt that it is needed for the AVR target. The AVR target is
> an embedded processor that uses it's own C library, avr-libc:
> <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avr-libc/>
> So there aren't any "old system headers" around. The RTEMS target for
> the AVR *may* use newlib, but I don't what the status of that is. Ralf
> or Joel would have to chime in on this aspect.
> The AVR target no longer uses fixincludes anyway. If there are any
> problems with the headers, we should be able fix them directly in avr-libc.
Ralf is on vacation for a few weeks.
avr-rtems is using newlib. *-rtems uses newlib so I assume it would not
need anything adjusted.
> HTH
> Eric
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