Bug 1530

Summary:	p2c needs to be updated
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Alexander L. Belikoff <abel>
Component:	p2c	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description Alexander L. Belikoff 1999-03-16 15:42:23 UTC

p2c shipped with RedHat systems is old and has a huge number
of problems associated with it. Unfortunately its author
said that he didn't have any spare time to continue
maintaining it. We at BFM have been using p2c for quite a
long time and have made (primarily Harvey J. Stein
<hjstein.il>) a number of large patches for it.

I've put the new version of p2c (dubbed 1.22) on gribble.
Look at the ChangeLog to get an idea of what changes were
made. Note also a 'p2c.patch' file, that contains *some*
(NOT all) changes against the plain p2c - you DON'T have to
apply it - it's already in.

I must warn that we still don't rely on p2c on an Alpha
platform - it still generates incorrect code from time to
time.

Comment 1 Mike Maher 1999-03-22 06:56:59 UTC

Fixed this problem, see changelog for details.
Makefiles needed many modifications.