On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:53:15PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > And therefore you added a patch that helps only those distros at the
> > price of breaking other people and distros using sane compilers?
>
> Didn't you start this thread by pointing out that SuSE has a gcc 3.3.4
> which isn't? I would call that a compiler which lies about its version, and
> for the purposes of this argument, I would say that it is not a sane
> compiler.
I said:
<-- snip -->
This line has to be something like
( (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 3 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ >= 4) && \
HEAVILY_PATCHES_SUSE_GCC )
<-- snip -->
IOW:
Only heavily patches gcc 3.3 compiler define __gcov_init.
Anton's original report said that he needs __gcov_init with
SuSE gcc 3.3.4 .
> Given this, your original (correct) claim was that my patch would not help
> such compilers. Are you now claiming that it does help such compilers, and
> no one else?
No, my claim is that no sane gcc 3.3 defines __gcov_init.
> Jeff
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