Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:38:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: (un)protoize (Was: cdrom boot?) Message-ID: <199611231038.LAA02757@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611230958.UAA22401@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Nov 23, 96 08:28:43 pm"
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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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