> a common set of sources.  This is *great*.  However, this also means

Strongly agree!

> that gcc doesn't predefine a symbol for the local machine type (hp300,
> sun3, amiga, mac68k, da30) any more.  Also, some ports may wish to
> define additional symbols, such as hp9000 for the hp300 port.

Do we really want this?  I've been thinking about it, and I'm not
convinced that it's necessary.  There should be very few cases where you
really care which m68k port you're compiling for.  In these cases, is it
wrong to define a symbol in machine/param.h or compare against MACHINE
(the latter wouldn't work for the hp9000 case)?

-allen

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