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Re: gdb and iso-c

To: Guenther Grau <Guenther dot Grau at marconicomms dot com>
Subject: Re: gdb and iso-c
From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:10:54 -0500
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <200003241301.OAA04488@mail.macqel.be> <38DB7FF7.E3AFDE79@marconicomms.com>

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:47:19PM +0100, Guenther Grau wrote:
>All major operating systems I know come with a reasonable modern
>iso-c compiler (or at least you can get one for it). And even if
>this weren't the case, you can always crosscompile gdb on a different
>platform (This feature needs more testing anyways ;-)

That was more-or-less the rationale for moving gdb towards a newer
standard.  You obviously can't do this with gcc or binutils since they
may need to be compiled on a system which only has K&R.

cgf

References:
- gdb and iso-c
  - From: Philippe De Muyter
- Re: gdb and iso-c
  - From: Guenther Grau

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