Re: Commercial apps written with GCC?

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From: Tim Smith
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 03:30

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Myles Williams <williams@martha.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
>Would someone from the FSF please clarify on the use of GNU header files?  I
>have never seen that issue discussed before.  It seems to me that since the
>header files do not translate into machine code in the binary, their copy-
>right has no claim on that binary.

From GNU ctype.h:

	#if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__)
	extern __inline int
	tolower (int __c)
	{
	  if ((unsigned char) __c != __c)
	    return __c;
	  else
	    return __tolower (__c);
	}  

That will translate into machine code in the binary.

--Tim Smith

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