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Re: textdomain warning removal
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: textdomain warning removal
- From: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 19:43:30 +1000 (EST)
- cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Ben Elliston wrote:
> > Has anyone any objection to changing the definition of textdomain and
> > bindtextdomain as follows? This silences gcc as regards
> > "warning: statement with no effect"
>
> These changes are a bit unfortunate in light of the need to retain
> compatibility with ancient compilers. GDB now requires an ISO C compiler
> to build it (e.g. GCC). Can't the binutils follow suit?
Huh? Are you saying the macros for textdomain and bindtextdomain, that
expand to "while (0)", will break K&R compilers? Are you suggesting
that binutils should no longer try to be K&R compliant?
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