Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: gcc

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Antti P Miettinen wrote:
> 
> > Rick Vernam <rickv@hobi.com> writes:
> > > any comments on the current status of moving beyond dependency on 
> > > GCC 3.3.6?
> > 
> > Sorry for a vague ignorant question, but would the gcc-4 issues be 
> > affected in any way if the ops were inside a big function (use labels 
> > to find them) vs the current use of separate functions?
> 
> It might be a bit outdated, but the basic ideas still hold valid in 
> http://libvncserver.sourceforge.net/qemu/qemu-porting.html.
> 
> So no, you cannot have the ops inside a big function.

I realise that I was not quite clear enough... gcc4 has this annoying 
behaviour that it occasionally puts in return statements in the middle of 
the function.  There seems to be no option to prevent that.  And this 
behaviour is not helped by having one function rather than many.

Hth,
Dscho