Re: Changes for building bits on newer gcc 9.4 compiler

[Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>]

On an additional note, my changes are not backward compatible with
older compiler. The build will break when built with a centos 7
docker/vm/host:

/home/anisinha/workspace/bits/build/grub/grub-core/contrib-deps/python/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:
In function '_build_callargs':
/home/anisinha/workspace/bits/build/grub/grub-core/contrib-deps/python/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:3707:6:
error: empty declaration [-Werror]
      __attribute__ ((fallthrough));
      ^
/home/anisinha/workspace/bits/build/grub/grub-core/contrib-deps/python/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:3707:6:
error: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
[-Werror=declaration-after-statement]
/home/anisinha/workspace/bits/build/grub/grub-core/contrib-deps/python/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:
At top level:
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option
"-Wno-shift-negative-value" [-Werror]
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-cast-function-type" [-Werror]
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option
"-Wno-address-of-packed-member" [-Werror]
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option
"-Wno-discarded-array-qualifiers" [-Werror]

If fixing this is essential, we can ifdef some of these changes
between compiler version checks.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 2:06 PM Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi josh :
> Here are the pull requests. Please feel free to review and merge:
>
> Main bits module:
> https://github.com/biosbits/bits/pull/13
>
> Submodules:
> https://github.com/biosbits/grub/pull/1
> https://github.com/biosbits/python/pull/1
> https://github.com/biosbits/libffi/pull/1
> https://github.com/biosbits/fdlibm/pull/1
>
> Thanks
> ani