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Re: Macros and K&R

From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
Cc: Boris Tschirschwitz <boris at math dot ubc dot ca>,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:26:15 -0500
Subject: Re: Macros and K&R
References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0112170341080.1624-100000@percy.math.ubc.ca> <sibsgxlnwh.fsf@daffy.airs.com> <3C1E4072.4010003@cygnus.com> <si6675ll3m.fsf@daffy.airs.com>

> 
> The canonical operating systems to think about are pre-Solaris SunOS,
> and HP/UX.  Both ship with a K&R C compiler (although I admittedly
> don't know about the most recent versions of HP/UX).  Both are
> reasonably widely used.  Both come on machines easily powerful enough
> to compile gcc.


In the case of both those systems.  Pre-build GCCs are available for 
download.

> I recommend a simple approach for the binutils: stick to K&R until gcc
> changes.


GCC came out in '85?  There are probably people on this list that are 
younger than GCC so I'm not sure, from a developer point of view, this 
is the simplest option.
enjoy,
Andrew

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