Re: Trunk bootstrap failure [Cygwin]

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 08/07/2010 7.54, Dan Nicolaescu ha scritto:
> Angelo Graziosi<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > Il 07/07/2010 18.22, Dan Nicolaescu ha scritto:
> > > It looks like the start_of_text function is only used on AIX and
> > > MSDOS, so you can get the same result by completely removing start_of_text, 
> > > which makes the
> > > #define TEXT_START
> > > unnecessary.
> >
> > Indeed. Emacs (rev.100746) bootstraps also with these patches:
>
> Thanks.  Should I go ahead with this change then?

I am afraid, but since I am not an Emacs developer (or C guru...), I do 
not understand completely the logic of the code in ecrt0.c, so I can 
take the responsibility to say 'GO'. What I can say is that Emacs 
bootstrapped in that way is still running.

Ciao,
Angelo.

> > Since 'start_of_text' is not used by Cygwin build, shouldn't 'ecrt0.c'
> > be completely unnecessary?
>
> That's exactly the reason for this discussion: getting rid of ecrt0.c.