Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.10] slirp/smb: Replace constant strings by glib string

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Eric Blake (eblake@redhat.com) wrote:
> On 04/07/2017 09:56 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > 
> >> The cleanup is useful, and resolves one of the build issues I pointed
> >> out earlier on Rawhide (looks like it is now Fedora 26 in addition to
> >> Rawhide that have new-enough gcc).  In that thread, we argued that it's
> >> not going to be essential to get this in for 2.9, but as more and more
> >> people move to newer gcc, it will probably be a candidate for
> >> qemu-stable for 2.9.1 in addition to 2.10.
> > 
> > Ah which thread is that?
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/threads.html#04552
> in particular
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg04567.html

Yep, feels about right.

> > I just posted:
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01294.html
> 
> Yes, I just saw that. And it is indeed hacky, but maybe it will spur
> some proper patches.

Yes, and some of those it might be best to see what the gcc people say
as to whether they'll fix them.

Dave

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