Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:14:50 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Patch to add target specific cleanup for gcc.c
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> I think that creating one extra file can still be in average faster than opening EVERY 
> temporary files once more. Of course this is safer than approach I used,
> but is it worth the overhead we'll have

We clearly disagree on that, but since the port of GCC 2.8.1 is your 
work, you will have to decide.

Here's my opinion: I think it is not clean for GCC to work around bugs in
the library, real or potential, unless those library bugs cannot be fixed
easily.  In this case, IMHO the fix is easy and should be applied to the
library.

Maintaining work-arounds such as this one is a nightmare.  What are the
chances that somebody who would want to port a future version of GCC to
DJGPP will recognize the reason for this workaround and understand all its
consequences?  If they fail to do that, they will break GCC.