From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@cambridge.arm.com>
To: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
Cc: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>, Mike Laman <mlaman@cox.net>,
GCC <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Subject: Re: __main
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 04:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209041101.g84B1eL17964@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Sep 2002 22:21:06 BST." <20020903212105.GB31696@daikokuya.co.uk>
> Fergus Henderson wrote:-
>
> > On 02-Sep-2002, Mike Laman <mlaman@cox.net> wrote:
> > > I'm creating the port (working on my third month on this project).
> >
> > In that case, why don't you define NAME__MAIN and SYMBOL__MAIN
> > in your target header files?
> >
> > ("set NAME__MAIN to give a quoted symbol and SYMBOL__MAIN to
> > give the same symbol without quotes for an alternative entry point.
> > You must define both, or neither.")
>
> Why not just define one in terms of the other? I could never
> figure that out.
Oh probably because when I added that 10+ years ago there was some reason
why we couldn't rely on being able to generate a string from a symbol;
that is, why one of
#define STRINGIFY(X) #X
and
#define STRINGIFY(X) "X"
was failing, though you don't really expect me to remember that now do you?
R.
PS I've always condidered the K+R form a truly gross hack; there certainly
was nothing in K+R1 that suggested this had to work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-04 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-29 11:25 __main Robert Spanton
2002-08-29 11:40 ` __main Fergus Henderson
2002-08-29 22:18 ` __main Mike Laman
2002-09-01 9:04 ` __main Fergus Henderson
2002-09-01 13:14 ` __main Mike Laman
2002-09-01 13:22 ` __main Mike Laman
2002-09-01 13:40 ` __main Robert Spanton
2002-09-02 4:26 ` __main Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-02 5:29 ` __main Ian Dall
2002-09-02 19:08 ` __main Mike Laman
2002-09-01 22:56 ` __main Fergus Henderson
2002-09-02 3:36 ` __main Mike Laman
2002-09-02 5:51 ` __main Fergus Henderson
2002-09-02 19:06 ` __main Mike Laman
2002-09-03 14:03 ` __main Fergus Henderson
2002-09-03 14:21 ` __main Neil Booth
2002-09-04 4:03 ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2002-09-02 19:37 ` __main Zack Weinberg
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