On 18 April 2007 11:41, Christian Joensson wrote:

> 16 Apr 2007 16:50:03 -0600, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 
>> Dave>   The definition of _EXFUN in mprec.h is unconditionally:
>> Dave> #define _EXFUN(name, proto)             name proto
>> 
>> libjava, and subsequently Classpath, imported an old version of this
>> code, which was then hacked over randomly.
>> 
>> Dave> How about we whip up a patch to just turn all the _EXFUN
>> Dave> definitions into real honest-to-goodness ansi prototypes?  Is it
>> Dave> actually serving any real purpose?
>> 
>> I think just the hypothetical scenario of making it simpler to import
>> a newer version of fdlibm and/or mprec.  I think we may have imported
>> a new mprec at one point, but I don't recall us ever importing a newer
>> fdlibm. 
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
> 
> ehrm, well... I have to ask. Have you convereged at something yet?

  Well, Tom is the java/libgcj maintainer.  Tom, are you interested in fixing
this in the immediate timescale by doing an import, or shall I whip up a patch
as proposed above just to get bootstrap fixed until you're ready to do the
import in some more long-term timescale?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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