Subject: Re: gcc compiler output
From: [email-masked] (Earnie Boyd)

29 Apr 1998 17:24:04 -0700
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To: Benjamin Riefenstahl <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

---Benjamin Riefenstahl <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Gcc has 'i386' as a pre-defined identifier indicating your hardware
> platform. The ANSI language standard prohibits the compiler from
> introducing such names exactly so you as a programmer can use them.
You
> need to call gcc with the '-ansi' option to get that behaviour though.

I don't know if this would work with cygwin.  The specs file does a
-Di386.  However, I haven't checked what happens in the specs file
with -ansi.

> You could still detect your platform by checking for '__i386__'

Is this true for the cygwin gcc tools?  Is this macro defined?  It
isn't in the specs file.

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