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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-12-19 11:29:03 -0500
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-12-19 11:29:03 -0500
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Explain why we are making gcc 3.3 work
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analysis by Martin Hebnes Pedersen.
- Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
- to version 3.3. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha, fixes the other part of
- bug 4727. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes Pedersen.
+ to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC
+ version, but it is apparently required for binary compatibility
+ on some platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Bugfix on
+ 0.2.3.3-alpha, fixes the other part of bug 4727. Patch and
+ analysis by Martin Hebnes Pedersen.