Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:02:50 +0200
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From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin AT loewis DOT home DOT cs DOT tu-berlin DOT de>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
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In-reply-to: <200007171834.OAA06211@indy.delorie.com> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:34:27 -0400 (EDT))
Subject: Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
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> How about a system with its own stddef.h?  Standard types such as
> size_t, wchar_t, the definition of NULL -- these are surely closely
> related to the internals of a library, right?  And GCC has no means
> of knowing how to define these correctly for the library, right?

Wrong. GCC needs to know exactly what size_t and wchar_t is, and it
must also provide the definition of NULL. size_t must be known so the
builtin functions can be declared properly. wchar_t must be known so
wide string literals can be emitted correctly. NULL is defined as
__null on all platforms now, so that overloading works correctly in
C++ (for C, it is something different).

Now, the exact mechanism *how* it is achieved that the header file is
an exact match of the target understanding of these types is a tricky
question, however, there is no question *that* gcc must know about
these types even without seeing a single target header file.

Regards,
Martin