Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:27:35 -0700 | From | Tim Riker <> | Subject | Re: non-gcc linux? |
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#pragma is a particularly difficult problem to deal with because it is non macro friendly. =(
Sounds like C99 initializers are a likely first target for integration.
I'll keep plugging away at other stuff here as well.
Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:17:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > How can I insure that the largest possible amount of my efforts benefit > > > the community at large? Hopefully this will make it easier to move to > > > C99 or any other future compiler porting project. > > > > The asm I dont know - its a hard problem. Things like C99 initializers for 2.5 > > seem quite a reasonable change. There are also things like partial structure > > packing with __attribute((packed)) that can be hard to port > > All non toy compilers[1] I've seen so far had some equivalent of __attribute__((packed)). > It just always has a different syntax, usually even non macro friendly (#pragma) > > -Andi > > [1] ok and the TenDRA one
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