From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: [patch 00/16] Portability Patches for git-1.7.1 (v4) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:13:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20100427135708.258636000@mlists.thewrittenword.com> <4BD7032D.9050508@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20100427175442.GB13626@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael J Gruber , "Gary V. Vaughan" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 27 22:13:15 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6r9e-0005wN-8j for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:13:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752333Ab0D0UNJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:13:09 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:57205 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751410Ab0D0UNH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:13:07 -0400 Received: from mail01.m-online.net (mail.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245551C1561D; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:13:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF72D9023A; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:13:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.3.149]) by localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1KTdTZmzLjAu; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:13:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-105-240.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.105.240]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:13:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id CFA45CA297; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:13:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Everybody gets free BORSCHT! In-Reply-To: <20100427175442.GB13626@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:54:42 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.96 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > Furthermore, if we do take such changes, how are we going to manage > portability going forward? Some constructs (like non-constant > initializers) make the code much easier to read. People _will_ submit > patches that use them. Is somebody going to be auto-building on all of > these platforms with vendor compilers to confirm that nothing is broken? You can use "gcc -pedantic" to find these portability problems. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."