On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 02:29:13PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:

 > There's an additional uses of -traditional-cpp in bsd.dep.mk:
 > 
 > .depend: ${SRCS} ${DPSRCS}
 >         @rm -f .depend
 >         @files="${.ALLSRC:M*.s} ${.ALLSRC:M*.S}"; \
 >         if [ "$$files" != " " ]; then \
 >           echo ${MKDEP} -a ${MKDEPFLAGS} \
 >             ${AFLAGS:M-[ID]*:Q} ${CPPFLAGS:Q} -traditional-cpp ${AINC:Q} \
 >             $$files; \
 >           ${MKDEP} -a ${MKDEPFLAGS} \
 >             ${AFLAGS:M-[ID]*} ${CPPFLAGS} -traditional-cpp ${AINC} $$files; \
 >         fi
 > 
 > What's the point of those?
 > Shouldn't they be removed now?
 > If it's still needed for some files, then those files should be
 > fixed...

No.  It is necessary to preprocess .S files with -traditional-cpp for
many architectures because of conflicts between the asm's syntax and
ISO C cpp's semantics.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>