diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 6ada84eb86b..00845ba374a 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-09-04 Richard Henderson + + * doc/install-old.texi: Don't mention enquire. + * doc/sourcebuild.texi: Update float.h description. + Wed Sep 4 11:22:14 2002 J"orn Rennecke * sh.md (mperm_w_little, mperm_w_big): Supply mode for zero_extract. diff --git a/gcc/doc/install-old.texi b/gcc/doc/install-old.texi index 7529362efd6..a322b631a92 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install-old.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install-old.texi @@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ See @ref{VMS Install}, for VMS systems. If you have chosen a configuration for GNU CC which requires other GNU tools (such as GAS or the GNU linker) instead of the standard system tools, install the required tools in the build directory under the names -@file{as}, @file{ld} or whatever is appropriate. This will enable the -compiler to find the proper tools for compilation of the program -@file{enquire}. +@file{as}, @file{ld} or whatever is appropriate. Alternatively, you can do subsequent compilation using a value of the @code{PATH} environment variable such that the necessary GNU tools come @@ -458,16 +456,6 @@ tar xf tarfile Now you can proceed just as for compiling a single-machine compiler through the step of building stage 1. -If your target is exotic, you may need to provide the header file -@file{float.h}.One way to do this is to compile @file{enquire} and run -it on your target machine. The job of @file{enquire} is to run on the -target machine and figure out by experiment the nature of its floating -point representation. @file{enquire} records its findings in the header -file @file{float.h}. If you can't produce this file by running -@file{enquire} on the target machine, then you will need to come up with -a suitable @file{float.h} in some other way (or else, avoid using it in -your programs). - Do not try to build stage 2 for a cross-compiler. It doesn't work to rebuild GNU CC as a cross-compiler using the cross-compiler, because that would produce a program that runs on the target machine, not on the diff --git a/gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi b/gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi index ac64d8dc17e..2a6b9163027 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi @@ -255,12 +255,13 @@ In addition to these headers and those generated by fixing system headers to work with GCC, some other headers may also be installed in @file{@var{libsubdir}/include}. @file{config.gcc} may set @code{extra_headers}; this specifies additional headers under -@file{config} to be installed on some systems. GCC normally installs -a @code{} file; these are kept as -@file{config/float-@var{format}.h}, where @var{format} is specified by -a @code{float_format} setting in @file{config.gcc}, and a setting -@samp{float_format=none} disables installation of this header. GCC -also installs its own version of @code{}; this is generated +@file{config} to be installed on some systems. + +GCC installs its own version of @code{}, from @file{ginclude/float.h}. +This is done to cope with command-line options that change the +representation of floating point numbers. + +GCC also installs its own version of @code{}; this is generated from @file{glimits.h}, together with @file{limitx.h} and @file{limity.h} if the system also has its own version of @code{}. (GCC provides its own header because it is