Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:20:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200007231920.PAA13703@indy.delorie.com> From: Eli Zaretskii To: law AT cygnus DOT com CC: mrs AT windriver DOT com, zack AT wolery DOT cumb DOT org, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, 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 References: <12279 DOT 964366753 AT upchuck> Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:39:13 -0600 > From: Jeffrey A Law > > In message <200007231105 DOT HAA13296 AT indy DOT delorie DOT com>you write: > > > From: Mike Stump > > > 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 The above referred to a suggestion originally made by Mike (to remove stddef.h and possibly other headers based on Autoconf test).