macro used without args

[Paul Fox]

vapier wrote:
 > On Friday 06 July 2007, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
 > > On Friday 06 July 2007 07:42, simon lao wrote:
 > > > when I compile the busybox and had error message:
 > > > macro 'xstrtou' used without args.  I used cross
 > > > compiler GCC 2.95. Do I need to update the toolchain ?
 > >
 > > Yes. There was similar posting from another user.
 > > I'm afraid bbox + gcc 2.x is not going to work.
 > 
 > should we go as far as checking __GNUC__ defines in the
 > headers and emitting #warning/#error for < 3 ?

in my opinion, yes.  there are still a lot of old toolchains
floating around in tarballs out there.  much better to fail
early.  (and if we know it will fail, it should be #error.)

paul
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