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Re: compiler standards (and/or min gcc version) supported withinstalled headers ?

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:31:43 +0000
Subject: Re: compiler standards (and/or min gcc version) supported withinstalled headers ?
References: <201212282357.52390.vapier@gentoo.org> <20130109002625.648D42C08D@topped-with-meat.com><Pine.LNX.4.64.1301090157050.11486@digraph.polyomino.org.uk><20130110014733.BC5AA2C0CA@topped-with-meat.com>

On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:

> Yeah.  OK, I relent.  C89 plus 'long long' is an acceptable baseline.

In that case, is the patch removing __GNUC__ conditionals on uses of "long 
long" OK?

> Note that this doesn't remove the need to use __extension__ everywhere
> on 'long long' uses.

(There are quite a few in miscellaneous places that need __extension__ 
added, e.g. sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/sys/procfs.h.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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