------- Comment #5 from jay dot krell at cornell dot edu 2010-05-12 12:02 ------- Rainer, sorry, I meant cross build a native gcc. build=whatever host=target=solaris
Not cross compiling with gcc itself (other than to build gcc). Old versions accept a certain syntax. New versions accept a superset. Just stick with old and it always works. It's not a bug. It's just that the syntax grew. The old syntax was ok. Not everything should be configurable. The environment/tool to probe is not necessarily available. Countless times besides I've seen the probe and later use disagree, like there are some #defines in the actual code that the configure didn't #define. Better just to minimize autoconf rather than forever chase these problems.] I think this feature testing may have gotten out of hand, and it fails extremely often in my experience. Some things should just work. This is an easy one. You don't even need if macho|solaris -- gas always is ok with the semicolon so you can just always put it in. Leaving just the att syntax or not, space or semicolon. I've already applied the #ifdef SOLARIS thing locally. I was curious how you'd handle this..where would the #define go, what name chosen. But I was pretty sure I was following a good example in the Macho thing, and still am. Previously I did have to probe my Darwin assembler and recommend an upgrade if it didn't allow "rep ". Now I can remove that since gcc just works with all versions. Anyway, your mail thread on this was very helpful to me. - Jay -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44074
