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Re: glibc-2.0.93 homebrew distribution tests
- To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Subject: Re: glibc-2.0.93 homebrew distribution tests
- From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:32:02 -0400
- cc: "glibc <GNU libc hacker" <libc-hacker@gnu.org>@cygnus.com
> That's not enough as I said before. If the compiler was generated for
> i686 and it is not one of the recent egcs compilers (egcs 1-.03 is not
> recent in this aspect) you'll still end up with using i686 code from
> the bits/string.h header. You must use -u__i686__ as an extra
> compiler option.
Exactly this kind of problem is why it is WRONG WRONG WRONG to use #ifdef's
in libc sources.