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
>
>
next prev 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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