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Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses
- From: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
- To: cagney at gnu dot org, eliz at elta dot co dot il
- Cc: drow at mvista dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:56:04 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses
I learned on hp-ux, and Eli learned on djgpp, that there is also
a risk from bit rot in imported code such as gdb/readline and gdb/intl.
It does not take much work to maintain these but we have to do
"break main; run" on more hosts more often.
> Also note that we can never draw a simple straight line here. DJGPP,
> for instance, is, or at least was, considered an important system so
> some rule bending (which often translates into me doing the work no one
> else is willing to) is in order.
Okay.
Michael C