(un)protoize (Was: cdrom boot?)

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From
J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date
23 Nov 1996 02:52:10
Subject
(un)protoize (Was: cdrom boot?)
Message-ID
199611231038.LAA02757@uriah.heep.sax.de


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As Michael Smith wrote:

> > Is it *currently* accompanied by unprotoize(1)?
>
> Probably. Unprotoize is required for bootstrapping gcc on platforms with
> non-ANSI C compilers; this should be obvious.

I don't think so. :) It would become a chicken-and-egg problem then...
protoize and unprotoize use the undocumented -aux-info switch of gcc
in order to obtain the function prototype information from the
compiler parser.

``An undocumented feature is a bug.'' :) (Forgot the source, though.)

> > % man 1 unprotoize
> > No entry for unprotoize in section 1 of the manual
>
> FreeBSD obviously doesn't need unprotoize 8)

...nor have there ever been man pages for protoize and unprotoize
available. If the usage information doesn't get you on the way, it's
UTSLware.

--
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)


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