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Subject: [Qemu-devel] gccism's are ok?
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

  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 ...

cheers,
  Gerd

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