Subject: Re: gcc-ansi -pedantic and long long on NetBSD
To: None <matthieu@laas.fr>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/30/1994 13:41:28
> 1. Fix gcc so the -pedantic doesn't choke on long long anymore (I
>    suppose that some ANSI version of C will support 64bit ints)

This is probably the solution.  it's unclear that ANSI will support
64bit ints in any reasonable fashion, though.

> 2. Fix the NetBSD headers so that they only use strict ansi types when
>    -pedantic is used

that's not at all practical; 64-bit ints are fundamental to some of
the prototypes, etc., in the system.  if the prototypes aren't there,
you'll lose.

> 3. Give up the idea of using -pedantic in XFree86 (It may be hard if
>    NetBSD is the only OS with this problem).

you'll find this on any other 4.4Lite-derived system.  That includes
the next release of BSDI and the next release of FreeBSD, as well.


chris