Re: gdb & ISO C (Was `textdomain warning removal')

[Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>]

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:32:24AM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Michael Meissner wrote :
> > On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 05:35:16PM +1000, 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?
> > 
> > No.  With the debugger, you don't have to build it with the native compiler,
> > since you could always build GCC first.
> 
> That supposes that gcc builds out of the box on your platform.  In my
> experience, that is seldom the case and I often need a good debugger to find
> why gcc crashes.  And gcc comes with a .gdbinit file that thus supposes gdb
> is available before gcc :)

Or if you have multiple systems, gcc builds as a cross compiler on the other
system targetting your old box.  Of course it is much harder to build a cross
compiler making sure you have all of the necessary pieces.

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