From: Zack Weinberg <zack AT wolery DOT cumb DOT org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:54:07 -0700
To: Bruce Korb <bkorb AT gnu DOT org>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, gcc AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org
Subject: Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:25:40AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
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> The amusing thing about that is that stddef.h is not platform
> specific, even though the SIZE_TYPE, PTRDIFF_TYPE and WCHAR_TYPE
> defines are.  I'm thinking that fixincludes should do its thing
> on the GCC-supplied stddef.h since fixincludes replaces these
> typedefs with platform-specific changes (as of today :-).

Our stddef.h uses the magic __SIZE_TYPE__, __PTRDIFF_TYPE__, and
__WCHAR_TYPE__ defines, which are set by cpp to the values of the
SIZE_TYPE, etc. defines in tm.h.  And fixincludes should too.

I sent in a patch over a year ago that drastically simplified our
stddef.h, but no one ever reviewed it.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1999-01/msg00655.html.

zw