Patch: GC mach_dep file extensions
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Thu Feb 14 07:41:00 GMT 2002
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> writes:
Jeff> It needs to work with Sun's cc as well.
Ok. In our tree it doesn't, since boehm-gc is always built as a
target library and thus can assume gcc. However, I can understand
that we might not want a divergence here.
>> My reason is that on case-insensitive file
>> systems, `.S' and `.s' will appear the same.
Jeff> I think anyone with a case-insensitive file system doesn't need
Jeff> to build sparc_mach_dep.o. Either they are not targetting sparc
Jeff> or they are using gcc as a cross compiler.
Yes, they could be building a cygwin-x-sparc cross.
Tom
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