Re: gcc-3.4.0 patches for 2.4.27?

Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-01T14:00:46Z

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 16:36, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Marcelo,
>
> Will you accept patches allowing gcc-3.4.0 to compile
> 2.4.27 or not? I can understand if you want to be
> conservative and not change _anything_ if you don't have to.
>
> gcc-3.4.0 errors out in 2.4.27-pre1 due to (a) inconsistent
> FASTCALL declarations, (b) uninlinable inlines, and (c)
> -funit-at-a-time which seems to leave unresolved calls to
> strcpy() around [gcc optimises sprintf "%s" to strcpy()].

Instead of disabling -funit-at-a-time, maybe hunt down
and replace sprintf("%s")? Or provide non-inlined
instance of strcpy() to link against, that won't waste much space.
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vda