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Re: gdb & ISO C (Was `textdomain warning removal')
- To: ac131313 at cygnus dot com (Andrew Cagney)
- Subject: Re: gdb & ISO C (Was `textdomain warning removal')
- From: "Philippe De Muyter" <phdm at macqel dot be>
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 15:08:15 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: meissner at cygnus dot com, bje at redhat dot com, alan at linuxcare dot com dot au, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, rms at fsf dot org
Andrew Cagney wrote :
> The decision to move GDB to ISO-C wasn't taken lightly.
[...]
> The rationale includes:
Thanks for the explanation.
> o The presense of programs that
> can translate ISO-C to K&R-C and hence
> allow ISO-C programs to compile using
> legcay compilers.
>
> Automake (I believe) includes such a
> program. Consequently, once GDB is
> converted to automake (....) that will
> be provided automatically.
I was not aware there were plans to convert gdb to automake, but if that
is done, I withdraw my objections. Is that a work in progress ?
Philippe