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From: Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>
To: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix bootstrap on OpenBSD, PR48851
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKRnqNKM9MjYmGyPH=d5khtnVv_ZQmfRUUgbJdOgG01Yq2N6VA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1107041301220.810@zhemvz.fhfr.qr>

Hi Richard,

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
>
> It happens that OpenBSD suffers from a bogus fixinclude that changes
> its perfectly valid NULL define from (void *)0 to 0.  The fix itself
> appears to be very old and is completely bogus - it replaces
> (void *)0 with 0 under the assumption the former is invalid for C++ -
> which is true - but 0 is inappropriate for C which is much worse.
>
> Thus, I propose to remove the fix altogether.  Platform maintainers
> can arrange for a new fix if the platforms still need fixing (which
> I seriously doubt after so many years and platform obsoletion).
>
> This restores bootstrap on OpenBSD.
>
> Ok for trunk and active branches?

Sounds completely reasonable to me, but I think the platform maintainers
do need to say, "okay".  Cheers - Bruce

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-04 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-04 11:04 Richard Guenther
2011-07-04 12:46 ` Bruce Korb [this message]
2011-07-04 12:51   ` Richard Guenther
2011-07-04 14:35     ` David Edelsohn
2011-07-04 19:08 ` Mike Stump
2011-07-05  8:33   ` Richard Guenther

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