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Re: textdomain warning removal
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. But the C only portion of GCC and
binutils must still be compilable by compilers with unfortunate limitations.
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