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- This is Info file gcc.info, produced by Makeinfo-1.47 from the input
- file gcc.texinfo.
-
- This file documents the use and the internals of the GNU compiler.
-
- Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
- manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
- preserved on all copies.
-
- Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
- this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also
- that the sections entitled "GNU General Public License" and "Protect
- Your Freedom--Fight `Look And Feel'" are included exactly as in the
- original, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is
- distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this
- one.
-
- Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
- manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
- versions, except that the sections entitled "GNU General Public
- License" and "Protect Your Freedom--Fight `Look And Feel'" and this
- permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free
- Software Foundation instead of in the original English.
-
- File: gcc.info, Node: Config, Prev: Machine Macros, Up: Top
-
- The Configuration File
- **********************
-
- The configuration file `xm-MACHINE.h' contains macro definitions
- that describe the machine and system on which the compiler is running.
- Most of the values in it are actually the same on all machines that GNU
- CC runs on, so large parts of all configuration files are identical.
- But there are some macros that vary:
-
- `FAILURE_EXIT_CODE'
- A C expression for the status code to be returned when the compiler
- exits after serious errors.
-
- `SUCCESS_EXIT_CODE'
- A C expression for the status code to be returned when the compiler
- exits without serious errors.
-
- `USE_C_ALLOCA'
- Define this macro to indicate that the compiler is running with the
- `alloca' implemented in C. This version of `alloca' can be found
- in the file `alloca.c'; to use it, you must also alter the
- `Makefile' variable `ALLOCA'.
-
- This macro, unlike most, describes the machine that the compiler is
- running on, rather than the one the compiler is compiling for.
- Therefore, it should be set in the `xm-MACHINE.h' file rather than
- in the `tm-MACHINE.h' file.
-
- If you do define this macro, you should probably do it as follows:
-
- #ifndef __GNUC__
- #define USE_C_ALLOCA
- #else
- #define alloca __builtin_alloca
- #endif
-
- so that when the compiler is compiled with GNU CC it uses the more
- efficient built-in `alloca' function.
-
- In addition, configuration files for system V define `bcopy',
- `bzero' and `bcmp' as aliases. Some files define `alloca' as a macro
- when compiled with GNU CC, in order to take advantage of the benefit of
- GNU CC's built-in `alloca'.
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