Re: Make usr.bin compile with gcc 3.3

[Craig Dooley <cd5697@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This compiles both with 3.3.1 from ports and 2.95.4 from the base system.  I 
have not tested on the 3.x series or any other 2.95 compilers.

-Craig
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 06:26, Robert Garrett wrote:
> Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> > -On [20030806 05:32], Craig Dooley (cd5697@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
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> >>Heres a patch to make usr.bin compile cleanly with gcc 3.3.  My eventual
> >>goal is to get buildworld working, but I think a lot of stuff in contrib
> >>will have
> >>to be updated.  One problem is gcc 3.3 cant compile gcc 2.95 :(  I have
> >>much of usr.sbin working also, and hopefully tomorrow can get that out.
> >
> > I've seen the same code do:
> >
> > do not compile under 2.95.2
> > do not compile under 2.95.3
> > compile under gcc 2.95.4
> > do not compile under gcc 3.1
> > do compile under gcc 3.2
> > do not compile under gcc 3.3
> >
> > So, personally, I am sceptical about just forcing code to compile with
> > gcc version X.
> > No ill feeligns towards the GCC guys, they have different goals than
> > what I have in my mind when it comes to compilers.
> >
> > I'll check it towards the current compiler in the base.
> >
> > One of my personal goals is to make the codebase compilable with a bunch
> > of compilers.
>
> Perhaps, I ought to make myself a bit clearer, I am not going to do
> anything to interfere with kernel development at this time. If we
> can make parts of the tree more gcc 3.3 friendly, without breaking
> anything that moves us to an eventual goal. However at this point
> that goal is fairly far in the future.
>
> Robert Garrett

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