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Re: HAVE_HIDDEN doesnt always mean DONT_USE_BOOTSTRAP_MAP
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: "Steve Munroe" <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, geoffk at geoffk dot org,libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, roland at frob dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:39:16 +0200
- Subject: Re: HAVE_HIDDEN doesnt always mean DONT_USE_BOOTSTRAP_MAP
- References: <OF3B2F6E27.D19A23E1-ON86256C21.006C9FAA@rchland.ibm.com><u8wuqdpeea.fsf@gromit.moeb>
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
|> "Steve Munroe" <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com> writes:
|>
|> > Ulrich Drepper wrote:
|> >
|> >> I think you've been told numerous times that using #ifs to test for
|> >> architectures is wrong. Not only this, it's the single biggest sin.
|> >
|> > Ok I will use __WORDSIZE and HAVE_ASM_GLOBAL_DOT_NAME where appropriate.
|> > However I suspect that use of #ifdefs for architectures is not always a
|> > sin. Two examples come to mind:
|> >
|> > ./stdlib/longlong.h
|>
|> That one comes from libgmp and is copied.
GCC is also using a variant of it. IMHO it would be nice if they could
be merged.
Andreas.
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