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Re: Preserving ancient GCCs?



Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 11:52:06PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:
>> 
>> > is there a good reason for keeping lang/gcc and lang/gcc3?
>> 
>> Yes, there exists software that requires varargs, which entails using
>> gcc 2.95 for development.
>
> Couldn't that be rewritten to stdarg? I did this with some package
> 10 years ago...

You still need development tools while you're rewriting it.


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