Re: ctype.h:192: error: parse error before '{' token

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> We claim to support GCC 2.95 and above.

That's a tough claim, and you can't count on gnulib to help you on that
claim.

It's tough, because in my experience GCC 2.95 and 2.95.1 were buggy
even at that time. GCC 2.95.2 was nearly OK. GCC 2.95.3 was really OK
then. But nowadays, these compilers don't even compile from source code
without patches. Even gcc-3.1 needs patches before it can be compiled [1].
So, from my point of view, gcc 3.2 should be the minimum anyone looks at.

Gnulib documents its portability targets. [2] Systems that are 18 years
old are not reasonable targets any more.

This means, by using gnulib you can certainly get some problems from 2005
fixed. But don't count on us doing effort to help you regarding platforms
that are that old. It distracts us from other useful work we could do.

Bruno

[1] 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libffcall.git;a=blob;f=cross-tools/patches/gcc-3.1.patch
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Target-Platforms.html