RE: Fwd: sed porting trouble

[Schmitz, Joachim]

Yes I know there are traces of GCC, but it never really materialized. The guy 
(Tom Bates) who did all these ports that you can seen on 
http://ituglib.connect-community.org left the company end of 2007 (made 
redundant, actually), so all the stuff you can see there from 2007 or older is 
his stuff (I took care to make it available to the public again and re-packaged 
it). I now sort of took over, so all the stuff that is newer, is mine, but of 
course based on his work.
He seems to have had a gcc port, but never published it, maybe because it never 
worked properly, or because he got forbidden, as we do have our own compiler. I 
asked him several times for gcc, never got any reply (but got replies to from 
him on other things), so I assume there was something going on behind the scene.
If you look into that floss-0.9* package, at the ToDo file, you'll see that 
"remove GNU-C stuff or get gcc ported" is on the agenda. I'm pretty sure it'd 
be the former rather than the later...
On the other hand: a compiler is obliged to ignore unknown pragmas, the C99 
Standard (n1256.pdf), 6.10.6.1 says: "Any such pragma that is not recognized by 
the implementation is ignored"). And the (god old) times where gcc started 
nethack when finding a #pragma have long passed ;-)

Bye, Jojo
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Haible [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 2:56 AM
To: Schmitz, Joachim
Cc: Paul Eggert; Paolo Bonzini; 'bug-gnulib'
Subject: Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble

Btw, Joachim:

I can see in the libfloss sources that there is some GCC port for Tandem NSR.
Does it support #pragma columns?

If not, then the idiom needs to look like this:

  #if defined __TANDEM && !defined __GNUC__
  @PRAGMA_COLUMNS@
  #endif

Bruno