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

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 10:13 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "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.  mingw should be fine, but I'm wondering about irix and
> solaris.

Last time I did any AWK hacking I tested against mawk and gawk to be
sure it just worked. Both come with compatibility documentation. gawk
supports a --posix and --traditional switch to test out different
flavors.

Cheers,

Mark

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