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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 07:05:59 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To: mrs AT windriver DOT com
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martin AT loewis DOT home DOT cs DOT tu-berlin DOT de
In-reply-to: <200007230023.RAA01633@kankakee.wrs.com> (message from Mike Stump
on Sat, 22 Jul 2000 17:23:25 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
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> From: Mike Stump <mrs AT windriver DOT com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 17:23:25 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > A similar argument can be made for assert.h, stddef.h, and possibly
> > float.h, but these headers do not cause nearly as much trouble as
> > limits.h.  Limits.h must die.
> 
> If we do this, we should do them all enmass, and then be willing to
> seek out and test on lots of platforms to make sure we don't introduce
> new bugs.

Such a change doesn't have to affect all platforms, and doesn't need
to happen in one go.  It could be conditioned on some sommand-line
option to `configure', or be the default on only some platforms, at
least initially.

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