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List:       openbsd-tech
Subject:    some egcs odds and ends
From:       Marc Espie <Marc.Espie () liafa ! jussieu ! fr>
Date:       1999-05-30 15:18:55
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Something I so completely lived with for six months or so that I forgot to
tell about:
egcs has cleaned up configurations, as compared to gcc.
In particular, it no longer defines stuff such as i386 or sparc. You have
to live with the cleaner __i386__ or __sparc__.

The rationale is that
If you have some old source that depends on sparc, it's simple to add
-Dsparc to the proper place in the Makefile, whereas someone who writes 
some portable program may reasonably expect to use sparc for an identifier
and not have problems with it.

-- 
	Marc Espie		
|anime, sf, juggling, unicycle, acrobatics, comics...
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| `real programmers don't die, they just get out of beta'

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