Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 1/2] machine struct - use C99 initializers

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

> > GCC is sufficiently C99 compliant to handle this style of
> > initializers.
> > Maybe it's not C99 compliant enough for other stuff, but on this front
> > it does just fine.
>
> You're missing the point: GCC today is not necessarily GCC 4.3+ or
> whatever has just been released these days and included in your
> favorite Linux distro. Just like Sun continues to ship GCC 3.4.3 on
> their latest OpenSolaris builds, the BeOS world and therefore its
> successor(s) are stuck with GCC 2.95.3 due to C++ ABI breakage in
> between major GCC versions. GCC 2 was originally released in '98 iirc
> and hence not C99 compliant. I'd expect your IRIX to face a similar
> issue, at EOL.

If a host system hasn't bothered upgrading their toolchain in 10 years then I 
refuse to care. If you really want to run and ancient obsolete OS you should 
expect to run equally ancient software.

Paul