Re: [PATCH] Remove more gcc extension usage.

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Mon, 2006-07-10 01:22:55 -0400, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-07-08 15:03:27 -0400, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > > Monday I'll look to see if there's an option that can be given to
> > > the Solaris compiler to make it accept these constructs.  Maybe a
> > > simple CFLAGS change in my config.mak would resolve what this patch
> > > was trying to do.
> 
> So neither of the constructs my patch removes are supported in this
> (old) compiler, although a newer one might accept them with -xc99.
> Yes, I tried building a pristine git-1.4.1 with -xc99.  It barfed,
> as one would expect given the description above.
> 
> Since we don't have a newer version of cc available (not sure why)
> I'm stuck with needing to make the code changes in my patch just
> to get GIT to compile.

What about installing a compiler that implements more of C99, like
installing a gcc instance? I guess you're on a Sun system, there
should be precompiled binaries available.

MfG, JBG

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