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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