Re: [PULL 00/55] MIPS patches for 2022-10-30

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 08/11/2022 15.23, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 8/11/22 14:59, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 at 22:29, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The following changes since commit 344744e148e6e865f5a57e745b02a87e5ea534ad:
>>>
>>>    Merge tag 'dump-pull-request' of 
>>> https://gitlab.com/marcandre.lureau/qemu into staging (2022-10-26 
>>> 10:53:49 -0400)
>>>
>>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>>
>>>    https://github.com/philmd/qemu.git tags/mips-20221030
>>>
>>> for you to fetch changes up to 487099aee951e4966936acd3e9afd24c69de85ea:
>>>
>>>    hw/mips/malta: Use bootloader helper to set BAR registers (2022-10-30 
>>> 23:08:10 +0100)
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> MIPS patches queue
>>>
>>> - Convert nanoMIPS disassembler from C++ to C (Milica Lazarevic)
>>
>> Was this the last use of C++ in the tree, or am I forgetting
>> some other part that still needs the C++ compiler?
>>
>> If it is the last thing, we should put in the "Build Dependencies"
>> part of the release notes that a C++ compiler is no longer required
>> and mention that the configure options to specify it will go away in
>> a future release.
> 
> I guess the last use is from the Guest Agent on Windows...
> 
> $ git ls-files | fgrep .cpp
> qga/vss-win32/install.cpp
> qga/vss-win32/provider.cpp
> qga/vss-win32/requester.cpp

Yes, I think the c++ configure options are still required for that Windows 
stuff ... but IIRC Paolo once mentioned that we could simplify the linker 
logic in configure or meson.build once the nanomips stuff has been 
converted, since we now do not have to mix C and C++ linkage anymore?

  Thomas