The following reply was made to PR lib/36511; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: lib/36511: lcc is an ANSI C compiler for a variety of platforms
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:56:59 +0300

 > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:18:40PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
  >> I'm not sure that *non-standard* __asm directive can be allowed if
  >> __STDC__ is defined. Can you explain this?
 
 > I'm not sure what code you quote - it is not in NetBSD AFAICS.
 sys/sys/cdefs_elf.h revision 1.27
 
      41 #if __STDC__
      42 #define ___RENAME(x)    __asm(___STRING(_C_LABEL(x)))
      43 #else
      44 #ifdef __LEADING_UNDERSCORE
 
      54 #if __STDC__
      55 #define __strong_alias(alias,sym)
      56     __asm(".global " _C_LABEL_STRING(#alias) "\n"
      57             _C_LABEL_STRING(#alias) " = " _C_LABEL_STRING(#sym));
 
      99 #if __STDC__
     100 #define __SECTIONSTRING(_sec, _str)
     101         __asm(".section " #_sec "\n\t.asciz \"" _str "\"\n\t.previous")
     102 #else
     103 #define __SECTIONSTRING(_sec, _str)
     104         __asm(".section _sec\n\t.asciz _str\n\t.previous")
     105 #endif
 
  >> P.S.
  >> It's not clear for me what things should be fixed?
  >> LCC itself or NetBSD includes or both?
 
 > I think both.
 
 > How about we protect the whole __RENAME(x) block in NetBSD's cdefs.h by
 
 >   #ifndef __RENAME / #endif
 
 > and modify lcc to provide a working __RENAME(x) macro? We don't need
 > to special case __LCC__ then and can use the same for other
 > compilers.
 
 This sounds reasoble but I don't know what is this __RENAME macro and
 "function renaming" for.
 And why an absense of it is a fatal error
 
 sys/cdefs.h:
     254 #error "No function renaming possible"
 
 wip/tcc fails because of this.
 
 -- 
 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.