This patch is in response to Rainer Orth's comment (below).
I have a release on file with the FSF, but don't have SVN write access.
Problem description:
The (already committed) patch at the top of this thread removed a
reference to Solaris. It has been requested that this be restored to
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You misunderstood completely: I'm not at all demanding to remove support
for that pragma in the cross-platform part of the docs or even in the
code,
Whew! Ok, that's good. Sorry I went all crazy on you. When I thought
that *was* what you were asking for, I wanted to try to talk you out of it
On Tue, 13 May 2014, Rainer Orth wrote:
> right, and that's why I want to keep this info. If it weren't for
> Solaris compatibility, this pragma wouldn't exist, and given that
> heritage, I don't want to encourage its use elsewhere, even though it
> does work.
I can see definite cases where it c
Hi David,
> Thank you for taking the time to review this.
>
>>> the current text makes reference to "compatibility with the Solaris system
>>> headers," the remaining pragma is (according to the existing text)
>>> "currently on all platforms." This makes referring to Solaris both
>>> superfluous
Thank you for taking the time to review this.
the current text makes reference to "compatibility with the Solaris system
headers," the remaining pragma is (according to the existing text)
"currently on all platforms." This makes referring to Solaris both
superfluous and potentially confusing.
David Wohlferd writes:
> I don't have permissions to commit this patch, but I do have a release on
> file with the FSF.
>
> Problem description:
> The existing docs make reference to the "two #pragma directives that change
> the name used in assembly." However, the subsequent text only describes
On Mon, 12 May 2014, David Wohlferd wrote:
2014-05-12 David Wohlferd
* doc/extend.texi: Reflect current pragma count and remove "Solaris."
Thanks, I applied the patch with two changes to the ChangeLog:
1. Two spaces between name and e-mail address per GNU Coding Standard.
2. I rewr
