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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>, brobecker@gnat.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, cagney@redhat.com,
	Peter.dot.Schauer.at.regent.dot.e-technik.dot.tu-muenchen.dot.de@kettenis.dyndns.org,
	kevinb.at.redhat.dot.com@kettenis.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/AIX] xm-aix4.h - Remove USG #define
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 13:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41163131.6090001@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408081232.i78CWwfh015063@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>

>   Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:46:49 -0700
>    From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
> 
>    config/xm-aix4.h has the following definition:
> 
>    | #define USG 1
> 
>    The most obvious way of getting rid of it is to add a piece in configure.in
>    to set this define if on AIX by adding a -D to the cflags, but that
>    would be ugly. I think the best approach would be to see if we couldn't
>    just get rid of its usage entirely. Need to review its usage first...
> 
> The USG define just really has to go.  Given the fact that GDB
> compiles without problems on many SystemV-ish systems without the
> define, my guess is that it can be eliminated.  Just try what happens
> if you delete it on the oldest AIX system you can find.

Right, as a reference, `break main; run' still worked on IRIX 6.5 after 
#define USG was removed from it's config.

However, lets just define `oldest AIX system' to mean `>=4.3 AIX system'.

Andrew



      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-08 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-08  4:46 Joel Brobecker
2004-08-08 12:33 ` Mark Kettenis
2004-08-08 13:57   ` Andrew Cagney [this message]

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