Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:13:36 +0200 (EET) | From | Markus Hästbacka <> | Subject | Re: [2.0.40-rc8] Works well |
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:28:30AM +0000, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > ... > > Recently I just have such an idea that is to port the 2.0.39 to let it > > be compiled with my gcc 2.95.4 or any > > other latest gcc. At the same time, also make it remain compliant to > > gcc 2.7.2.1. ( I can't find 2.7.2.1, only 2.7.2.3 > > on the ftp) Is this work worth while? > > Well, for sure it's quite a demanding task, since, if I remember > correctly, the module-code uses some nasty internal gcc-knowledge to > generate code, that simply doesn't work with later versions of gcc. > It might be that I remember this incorrectly though. > only the module-code? :) > It would be interesting, yes, but only if it can be proved to some > degree that no new bugs are introduced. > That would probably be impossible to do without introducing any bugs.. > My aim for 2.0.41 is to make it a cleanup-release; remove warnings, tidy > up a little source-code mess, kill dead code, fix typos etc. > Sounds great, a bit amazing that 2.0 is alive again :)
Markus
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