RE: Problem compiling glibc with gcc 2.95.3

[David Korn]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Mitchell [mailto:address@hidden
>Sent: 20 March 2001 19:52

>>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Edwards <address@hidden> writes:
>
>    Phil> this matter, but personally I feel that if some other
>    Phil> program (in this case, the glibc project) wants to exploit
>    Phil> their knowledge of the internals of gcc (for speed or
>    Phil> whatever reason), that's their responsibility, not gcc's.
>
>I agree.  The external interface to GCC consists of the `gcc', `g++',
>`g77', etc. drivers.

  Although it counts as bad design by strict engineering principles, you
can also say that they've accepted the maintenance burden as a necessary
evil which makes at least some sense in the context of something as
compiler and abi specific as a C library.  Then again, they could have
saved themselves the effort of that ongoing burden by submitting patches
that would give the cpp driver a flag that killed all the predefines.

  AFAICT, there's no way to get that effect using flags and specs; or am
I missing something?

      DaveK
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