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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> 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 ...

I'm doing that in QEMUAccel, and although I'm also not sure how well
it'll go, nobody complained
so far.

>
> cheers,
>  Gerd
>
> --
> http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/xenner/
>
>
>



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