[PATCH 6/7] malloc/obstack.h: Remove long obsolete NeXT gcc conditional

Will Newton will.newton@linaro.org
Mon Mar 17 12:55:00 GMT 2014


On 17 March 2014 12:32, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Will Newton wrote:
>
>> This fixes a warning introduced with -Wundef, but in general there
>> is no point supporting this long obsolete configuration.
>
> Have you confirmed that it's outside the scope of what gnulib tries to
> support (since this code is shared with gnulib - the only reason for glibc
> headers to support GCC versions before 2.7, as they didn't support any
> platforms now supported by glibc)?

It's not clear to me exactly which platforms gnulib supports but
NeXTStep is not in the list of target platforms in the gnulib docs.
How are changes to this code handled? It doesn't appear that there is
a regular sync of code in either direction.

-- 
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro



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