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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GNU CPP for MINIX, Info
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.155137.23768@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 4 Jan 91 15:51:37 GMT
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In <40627@nigel.ee.udel.edu> HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:

>What were the problems with GNU CPP ? (I suspect it were functions returning
>structs since Bruce's compiler does not support them).
>C.v.W.

GNU CPP had a couple of minor problems with different or missing
include files from what it expected for USG UNIX, which is what
my Makefile uses for a default.  GNU CPP did have one function
that wanted to return a struct, but I fixed that up.  The last
problem dealt with a couple BSD-isms in MINIX that
interfered with GNU's idea of whether routines like bcopy were
available in the library.

My motivation for hacking the GNU CPP out GCC was to 1) provide a separate
pre-processor for those using Bruce's compiler, and 2) provide a CPP with
source to those using your cc68/cc386 compiler.

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