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Re: `#error' vs string literal
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: `#error' vs string literal |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:05:24 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
Hi Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:20:52PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > | * md5.c: Use `#error' rather than a string literal to provoke
> > failure.
> > | * sha1.c: Likewise.
> >
> > I could not find corresponding discussion or bug reports. What's the
> > gist of this?
>
> There had been uses of #error in coreutils for so long without
> complaint, so I felt comfortable with making the above change.
Oh, ok.
> Paul, have you found a reasonable porting target (always the key :-)
> on which #error doesn't work?
D'oh, now I found it:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2005-09/msg00006.html
So, the MIPSpro compilers don't work.
Cheers,
Ralf