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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] gccism's are ok?
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:53:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A04461.2060001@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A03D89.3020005@redhat.com>

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> Quick question:  Is it ok to use gcc-specific features in qemu?  Or will
> that break builds on some platform?
>
> Linux obviously is gcc, MacOS X too as far I know.  MinGW on Windows is
> gcc too.  Anything else we care about?
>
> I'm thinking especially about the constructor attribute.  That would
> allow to make drivers self-contained, by having a register() call in a
> small constructor function ...
>   

You'll have to post a patch.  I had discussed using GCC-isms to do the 
same thing with Paul Brook and at the time, he was not a big fan of it IIRC.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>   Gerd
>
>   

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-11 13:24 [Qemu-devel] gccism's are ok? Gerd Hoffmann
2008-08-11 13:38 ` Glauber Costa
2008-08-11 13:53 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-08-11 14:15   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-12  8:28 ` Thiemo Seufer

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