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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Nathaniel Filardo <nwfilardo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] case A ... B:
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:10:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707242310.27918.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6540790d0707241443m226a1a91pe6c329efb2b4b718@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Nathaniel Filardo wrote:
> Greetings all.
>
> I am attempting to port QEMU to Plan 9 for the Google Summer of Code.
> A big chunk (in terms of diff line count) of the work that has been
> done on this before was to convert all the lines of the form
>     case A ... B:
> to be individual case arms as required by Plan 9's C compiler.  There
> are currently 200 lines in the code base that use this GNU C
> extension, which limits the portability of QEMU to platforms with GCC
> or a C compiler supporting this particular GNUism.  Would a
> bulk-conversion patch be accepted?

qemu already required other gcc extensions for dyngen to work, so IMHO there's 
no point removing the other extensions until you remove that.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6540790d0707231927r1bd9925bx14940e8fc667037e@mail.gmail.com>
2007-07-24 21:43 ` [Qemu-devel] case A ... B: Nathaniel Filardo
2007-07-24 22:10   ` Paul Brook [this message]
2007-07-24 22:29   ` Thiemo Seufer

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