Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:37:22 +0100 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version |
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:53:15PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > bunk@stusta.de said: > > And therefore you added a patch that helps only those distros at the > > price of breaking other people and distros using sane compilers? > > Didn't you start this thread by pointing out that SuSE has a gcc 3.3.4 > which isn't? I would call that a compiler which lies about its version, and > for the purposes of this argument, I would say that it is not a sane > compiler.
I said:
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This line has to be something like
( (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 3 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ >= 4) && \ HEAVILY_PATCHES_SUSE_GCC )
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IOW: Only heavily patches gcc 3.3 compiler define __gcov_init.
Anton's original report said that he needs __gcov_init with SuSE gcc 3.3.4 .
> Given this, your original (correct) claim was that my patch would not help > such compilers. Are you now claiming that it does help such compilers, and > no one else?
No, my claim is that no sane gcc 3.3 defines __gcov_init.
> Jeff
cu Adrian
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