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Re: Branching for 2.12
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com>
- To: Troy Rollo <troy at rollo dot com>
- Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 21:35:04 -0600
- Subject: Re: Branching for 2.12
- Organization: OAR Corporation
- References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020130154609.02b4da88@pop3.corvu.com.au> <4.3.2.7.2.20020130154609.02b4da88@pop3.corvu.com.au> <4.3.1.2.20020303130537.02318930@mail>
- Reply-to: joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com
Troy Rollo wrote:
>
> At 12:10 1/03/02 +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> >Sorry, but as your patch stands, no. There are two problems. Firstly
> >we cannot accept automatically generated code (tds.[ch]) without the
> >program needed to regenerate that code.
>
> I open-sourced it - <https://sourceforge.net/projects/dstrans/>. I put it
> there primarily because I won't have enough time to work on it myself most
> of the time, but it's a convenient place to keep it. Also, if somebody else
> wants to take it over the opportunity is there. I'd also be happy to sign
> it over to the FSF if they saw fit.
Have you uploaded anything else? It doesn't look like any files
have been publicly released yet.
> On the other hand, there's no reason why the generated code couldn't be
> hand-modified, it just means (as you pointed out) that it couldn't be
> regenerated from the original files anymore.
>
> I find manual writing of code of this nature tedious and error-prone, hence
> my spending more time on writing the generator than it would have taken to
> write the generated code by hand. I suspect many others would also prefer
> to be able to generate such code.
>
> >Secondly these generated files are written in ANSI-C. Binutils is
> >still using K&R C, so that they can be rebuilt on systems that only
> >provide a K&R C compiler. (There still are such systems around).
>
> OK - some of the other projects have converted, and I didn't look as
> closely at binutils as I probably should have. I can make the generator
> produce K&R syntax as an option easily enough.
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