From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Mitchell To: Zack Weinberg Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" , Tim Hollebeek , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: RFA: Deprecate C++ options Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:00:00 -0000 Message-id: <214780000.999838795@warlock.codesourcery.com> References: <20010906215505.T386@codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00199.html > As Joe points out, there's a distinction to be made between the > traditional preprocessor and the traditional C compiler. Indeed. Traditional cpp is so engrained in some parts that it may be around for quite some time. > I can say with confidence that no Debian package in the current > archives uses the traditional C compiler, because that does not > work at all with glibc >=2.1's headers. I would support dropping > that code from gcc. Yes, that sounds like a pretty convincing argument to me. It's an option that is never used to build GNU software and cannot be used on a GNU system... > Here's another proposal, which might sound radical, but I bet it'd > have even less user-visible impact: Let's drop support for every host > and target that doesn't have a C89-compliant standard library. That > would mean, for instance, we could throw away fix-header and about > two-thirds of fixincludes. I assume that you're exempting embedded targets with no real standard library at all? -- Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com