Looking through README.Portability I noticed what feels like
an obsolete reference to Irix 6. Do we really support that,
or versions that feature this issue, any longer?
Rainer, I think you may have been the last Irix contributor/
tester we've had?
(The last entry I could find was in gcc-4.7/buildstat.html .)
Gerald
Index: gcc/README.Portability
===================================================================
--- gcc/README.Portability (revision 244756)
+++ gcc/README.Portability (working copy)
@@ -21,14 +21,6 @@
String literals
---------------
-Irix6 "cc -n32" and OSF4 "cc" have problems with constant string
-initializers with parens around it, e.g.
-
-const char string[] = ("A string");
-
-This is unfortunate since this is what the GNU gettext macro N_
-produces. You need to find a different way to code it.
-
Some compilers like MSVC++ have fairly low limits on the maximum
length of a string literal; 509 is the lowest we've come across. You
may need to break up a long printf statement into many smaller ones.
