From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2xxE-0004lz-Dm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 21:35:48 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2xx8-0004ln-HN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 21:35:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44511 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2xx8-0004lk-7e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 21:35:42 -0400 Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.155]:26233) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2xx7-0006lj-Vn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 21:35:42 -0400 Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1146155ywr.82 for ; Sat, 09 May 2009 18:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A062F6B.8090702@codemonkey.ws> Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 20:35:39 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API References: <200905051231.09759.paul@codesourcery.com> <4A0083F5.7050606@codemonkey.ws> <200905060152.02351.paul@codesourcery.com> <200905060204.32068.paul@codesourcery.com> <4A05EDD8.6030208@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: malc Cc: Paul Brook , qemu-devel@nongnu.org malc wrote: > -Wl,--whole-archive means QEMU can only be built with GNU ld. > Does upstream QEMU build with anything else today? Worst case, you can always search out device_init functions and build a stub dynamically but it gets really ugly. Unless there's an immediate need not to use constructors, I don't see why we wouldn't. Regards, Anthony Liguori