On 04 Jun 2001, Paul D. Smith uttered the following:
> But, GCC was left for a long time around 2.7.* without any upgrade at
> all, so long after it was necessary GCC was copying the system headers
> for Solaris.
>
> When 2.8.* and EGCS came out, they fixed this and stopped copying the
> system headers: now it has only the fundamental ones like stdarg.h,
> etc.
Note that this is only the case for Solaris; for nearly all other
systems, GCC does fix headers.
And, yes, fixing headers is a huge kludge; but there's no other real way
to do it. (GCC 3 will be able to warn that a fixed header is outdated,
at least.)
> Even with newer GCC's it _can_ cause problems, but very very rarely.
I'd hedge my bets there and say `less often than before' :) If you're
doing much C++, especially with exceptions, even more especially with
shared libraries or threads, expect breakage when building on one
Solaris OS and running on another.
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--- Correct use of English, from jer
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Received on Mon Jun 04 2001 - 19:08:18 BST