Re: [avr-libc-dev] [HEAD/1.0] patch for -mint8/[u]int32_t

[E. Weddington]

On 12 Jul 2004 at 17:21, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As E. Weddington wrote:
> 
> > As a side note: The GCC folks have yet to decide whether the next
> > GCC release series will be 3.5 or 4.0. There have been several
> > discussions about this on the gcc list, but no conclusions. I just
> > wanted to let you know that if they decide to go with 4.0 then some
> > things will have to change with this.
> 
> Not necessarily.  As it is now, the #if statements consider the new
> -mint8 behaviour to apply to any GCC version >= 3.5.  This will
> naturally include GCC 4.x as well. ;-)  But OK, in that case, part of
> the logic is not useful anymore, and can be simplified, and it's even
> dangerous in case the 3.x line will ever be followed up with a
> different 3.5 release.
> 
> So yes, if they opt for 4.x, we'd better change our header file.

...And also specifically the comments and docs.