Subject: Re: rpcgen fix for -fshort-enums
To: None <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 02/05/2002 11:19:24
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

: > "Hey Richard, look, here's yet another prime example of the legacy code that
: > you don't think exists, which will cause more headaches with -fshort-enums
: > than the `benefit' is worth!"
: >
:
: But of course no one has ever had to fix this code before to make it
: portable to systems other than the original Sun that it originally ran
: on...
:
: Taking a random sample of one file:
:
: RCS file: /cvsroot/basesrc/usr.bin/rpcgen/rpc_cout.c,v

The revisions you site are simple fixed-size type fixups.  They aren't on
the scale of hackery required to work around the -fshort-enums braindamage.

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