Re: [cp-patches] Rewrite split-for-gcj

[Andrew Haley]

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > >> I'm not an awk expert by any stretch ... one important thing here is
 > >> to make sure the code remains portable.  Any ideas on that?
 > 
 > Andrew> You'll have to tell me what problems you forsee.  AFAIK use of AWK in
 > Andrew> gcc builds is OK, I don't know that we have such rules for classpath.
 > Andrew> Are you talking about mingw, or something else?
 > 
 > Just that we have to be sure we aren't inadvertently using GNU awk
 > extensions.

We aren't!  All my AWK comes from "The AWK Programming Language", and
I have absolutely no idea about any GNU extensions.  I suppose it
might have happened by accident.

 > mingw should be fine, but I'm wondering about irix and solaris.

I'm a bit worried that "system" might call the DOS shell, not sh.

Andrew.