Re: 000217: status of DJGPP support

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>]

> > [warnings from GCC]
>
> Yes, I can see those too. I am not sure we can clean all of them before 
> we go out with gdb 5 though, but it's up to Andrew.

I'd really suggest to try very hard to get rid of them.  It's not easy
to find real problems among all that clutter.  I'm afraid we'll miss
some of them.

> select is used under cygwin, and it currently works for that.

Does cygwin define fd_mask in its system headers?

> Just out of curiosity, when did you last built for DJGPP?

I never built any snapshot, I only worked with 4.18 (modified a bit).
Sorry, I simply cannot afford tracking the snapshots, I have too many
things on my todo.

>  >     Btw, why doesn't the `select' branch use the standard fd_set type
>  >     and the FD_* macros instead of memset and memcpy?  Use of fd_set
>  >     and FD_* would remove the need in all that juggling with
>  >     bits-per-byte, MASK_SIZE, etc.  Is there any reason not to use
>  >     those?
>  > 
> 
> Not really, if you have a patch, send it along.

Will do.  Thanks for the feedback.