Date:	Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:20:26 -0400 (EDT)
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From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To:	law AT cygnus DOT com
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	gcc AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org, martin AT loewis DOT home DOT cs DOT tu-berlin DOT de
In-reply-to:	<12279.964366753@upchuck> (message from Jeffrey A Law on Sun, 23
	Jul 2000 09:39:13 -0600)
Subject:	Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
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> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:39:13 -0600
> From: Jeffrey A Law <law AT cygnus DOT com>
> 
>   In message <200007231105 DOT HAA13296 AT indy DOT delorie DOT com>you write:
>   > > 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.
> No, that's a hack, plain and simple.  And it fails to address the issues I
> pointed out in my previous messages.

I believe I addressed the issues you raised in other messages.  The
above referred to a suggestion originally made by Mike (to remove
stddef.h and possibly other headers based on Autoconf test).

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