Subject: Re: yet another question about gcc-2.3.3 To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ's GPP mailing list) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 18:13:24 EST From: Stephen Turnbull > >It seems that there is considerable interest in making djgpp compliant with > >gcc version 2.3.3. It also seems that a principal obstacle to this goal is > >the existence of files in gcc-2.3.3 that have names longer than 8 characters. > > > >My question is, what's the big deal? Change a few file names, change the > >Makefile(s), problem solved (?). > > I don't know if this is the problem, but one thing which would make it more > difficult is if some of the include files have long names. Then source code > changes would be necessary, possibly in many places. One possibility would be > a preprocessor to adjust names in #include statements. (I thought about using > command line args: -Dlongfilename=shrtname, but the C preprocessor won't do > this.) > Given that somebody (Alan E., I think it was) made the paranoid suggestion that this is all a plot by RMS to make it impossible to support Messy-DOG (sic) versions of GCC, maybe what we need to do is write an AWK/Perl script to do it on the entire GCC distribution. Then RMS's plot will fail, since we'll be ready the next time :-> -- Stephen Turnbull The Ohio State University, Department of Economics 410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43210-1172 USA Phone: (614) 292-0654 Fax: ...-3906 Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu