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Re: c-stack vs. older platforms


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: c-stack vs. older platforms
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:05:30 -0700
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> are there any platforms where switching to c-stack would cause a 
> regression in m4's stack detection abilities if we don't port m4's fallbacks 
> for supporting older APIs?

I'm sure there are.  Bruno has documented several in the past.
However, at this point I wouldn't worry about architectures that
haven't shipped in the past five years; we don't need to support
computer museums.  This may simplify the job of coming up with a
simple yet portable c-stack implementation.




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