Re: FW: Patch to fix cygwin-xfree+gcc-2.95.3+autoconf problem

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

I can remove it - no problem.

Have you tried building the tree without it first though ?

Alan.

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:17:29 -0500, Harold Hunt wrote:
> Here is what Paul had to say.  Put together with what Alan said it sounds
> like __STDC__ will be coming out of StandardDefines.
> 
> Alan, do you want to commit this directly, or would you like me to submit a
> patch?
> 
> Harold
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Stodghill [mailto:stodghil@cs.cornell.edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:53 PM
> To: Harold Hunt
> Subject: RE: Patch to fix cygwin-xfree+gcc-2.95.3+autoconf problem
> 
> 
> It's been over a year, but I believe that my reasoning was as follows,
> 
> I guess it is not technically a bug. However, the C standard (or at least
> the c9x draft that I have) says that __STDC__ is a predefined implementation
> specific macro. The GCC manual discusses how __STDC__ is set depending upon
> the use of the -traditional flag. I don't believe that it makes sense to set
> or unset __STDC__ either from the command line or using preprocessor
> directives.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:32 PM
> > To: Paul Stodghill
> > Cc: cygx
> > Subject: RE: Patch to fix cygwin-xfree+gcc-2.95.3+autoconf problem
> >
> >
> > I recently stumbled across a message you wrote way back in March 2001:
> > http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200103/msg00082.html
> >
> > I notice that you say that cygwin.cf shouldn't be defining __STDC__ in
> > StandardDefines.  I can see that linux.cf and darwin.cf do not define
> > __STDC__ in StandardDefines, but I don't know why we should
> > not be defining
> > it either.
> >
> > A quick and explanation would get this problem quickly
> > remedied (I like to
> > do things correctly, so I'd like to fix this problem).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Harold
> >
> >