[GCC-XML] tarball
Brad King
brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Oct 2 09:10:50 EDT 2008
Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>> The #2 part has a whole bunch of compatibility patches for system
>> headers of native compilers from many different vendors. It allows the
>> GCC compiler to read the system header files from these other compilers.
>> This is needed so that the dumped interface exactly matches what the
>> user's compiler would see.
>
> Are there some changes to the GCC itself, or this is just a set of
> patched header files?
I had to patch gcc itself in a couple places. For example, reading
integer literals of the form "1234i64" (of type __int64) from the VS
headers required some patching.
-Brad
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