Re: [PATCH 2/2] RFT: Remove ABS macro from boot/i386/pc/boot.S

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 05:17:10PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Pavel Roskin<proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> > ChangeLog:
> >
> >        * boot/i386/pc/boot.S: Remove ABS macro, it's useless now.
> Could you wait before committing this patch? I'm currently making
> grub2 compiling with gcc 2.95 supplied as a possibility (another one
> is gcc 4.x) with haiku. The fixes are mostly also fixes for bad style.
> Once I've finished I'll test this patch with gcc 2.95 to see if it
> generates any problem with old systems

What kind of changes does this require?  gcc 2.95 is ten years old.  I don't
see a problem with supporting it if it comes really cheap, but I wouldn't
like having to live with a set of kludges if it's only for the sake of
keeping an old gcc around.

Aside from this, maybe someone should tell the Haiku folks that it won't
cost them a dime in license fees to upgrade their gcc sometime :-)

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Robert Millan

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