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Re: Branching for 2.12
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- To: Troy Rollo <troy at rollo dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 01 Mar 2002 12:10:20 +0000
- Subject: Re: Branching for 2.12
- References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020130154609.02b4da88@pop3.corvu.com.au>
Hi Troy,
> I notice that my patches for recognising Borland TDS files, posted
> here nearly a year ago (see
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-02/msg00408.html), are not
> in the CVS tree. Are there any plans to put them in?
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. If bugs are ever found in
those files we need to be able to fix them. If we just patch the
generated files, then the next time you regenerate them the patches
will be lost.
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).
Cheers
Nick