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From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
To: jbuck@Synopsys.COM (Joe Buck)
Cc: ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu, mrs@wrs.com, robertlipe@usa.net,
	egcs@cygnus.com, law@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: autoconf between stages. was: java fails to build
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901300306.DAA08224@phal.cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199901292209.OAA08414@atrus.synopsys.com>

> Actually, it would be safe to use autoconf to determine compiler
> characteristics, but only to pay attention to its results when the
> compiler is not gcc.  That is, include the autoconf-generated ones,
> but then append something like
> 
> #ifdef __GNUC__
> ... undef certain autoconf-symbols
> ... define them to the a value appropriate for gcc
> #endif

That is safe only if the feature is available in all versions of gcc.

  reply	other threads:[~1999-01-29 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-29 13:55 Kaveh R. Ghazi
1999-01-29 14:13 ` Joe Buck
1999-01-29 19:08   ` Joern Rennecke [this message]
1999-01-29 19:11     ` Joe Buck
1999-01-29 19:34       ` Joern Rennecke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-01-31 12:28 Kaveh R. Ghazi
1999-01-31 21:28 ` Robert Lipe
1999-01-30 11:12 Kaveh R. Ghazi
1999-01-31 23:58 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
1999-01-30 10:41 Kaveh R. Ghazi
1999-01-30 18:37 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-01-30 19:58   ` Robert Lipe
1999-01-31 23:58     ` Robert Lipe
1999-01-31 23:58   ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-01-27 14:30 Mike Stump
1999-01-27 15:06 ` Robert Lipe
1999-01-28 10:41   ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-01-28 10:56     ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-01-29 22:20       ` Robert Lipe
1999-01-31 23:58       ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-01-31 23:58     ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-01-31 23:58   ` Robert Lipe
1999-01-31 23:58 ` Mike Stump
1999-01-27 11:33 Mike Stump
1999-01-27 12:52 ` autoconf between stages. was: " Robert Lipe
1999-01-31 23:58   ` Robert Lipe

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