Adding a new gcc dir

[Paulo J. Matos]

On 3/6/07, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> On 06 March 2007 16:07, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
>
>
> > Well, added a couple of lines to gcc/Makefile.in referring to files in
> > myproj. Still, although it is partly working one thing is annoying me.
> > It's using these flags by default:
> > -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
> > -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wold-style-definition
> > -Wmissing-format-attribute
> >
> > Which means using C90, which means no mixed declarations and code, no
> > C++ comments, etc. Is there any way to compile at least, my files with
> > c99 constructs?
>
>   Take a look at the section of gcc/Makefile.in beginning "# Various ways of
> specifying flags for compilations:" and go from there.
>
> > Or all gcc code should be built like this??
>
>   Well, for your own personal purposes, you can do whatever you like, but it
> is part of the coding standard that all gcc code should be bog-standard C90,
> so that it is possible for end-users to build gcc on any machine, even a very
> old one with a very old compiler.
>

OK, thank you. I'll adhere to this standard them. :-)

>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> --
> Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
>
>


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