[ros-dev] GCC 4.4

[Alex Ionescu]

So? What's the status on this? It's almost been a month.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu



On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Daniel Reimer
<daniel.reimer at stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> Alex Ionescu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 25-Aug-09, at 12:48 PM, Dmitry Gorbachev wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Overwriting constant strings is a very real error and should be
>>>> fixed.
>>>> Code like this would crash in Windows, for example.
>>>>
>>> These warnings do not mean overwriting, simply passing a string
>>> constant to a function which takes char *; a potential, not
>>> necessarily a real error. It is allowed in C, not in C++.
>>>
>> So they still deserve fixing :)
>>
>>
>>> Of course, it would be good to check all warnings, some can be bugs.
>>> Not all useful warnings are included in -Wall. It may be worth to
>>> activate more.
>>>
>>> But warnings should not deter from adoption of GCC 4.4.
>>>
>> I agree, but switching compilers is a great time to fix some warnings.
>> It would take less then a day to fix the ones present today.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> So as I said, ReactOS need an in-tree version of libgcc with proper
>>>> support for __enable_execute_stack for kernel-mode.
>>>>
>>> It is not needed in user-mode, too. Nested functions are only used by
>>> PSEH2, and it works well without __enable_execute_stack()
>>>
>> Sure, but that's not the only reason why an in-tree libgcc is a good
>> idea.
>>
>> Is your GCC 4.4 built on Windows or Linux? If Windows, perhaps it
>> could become part of RosBE -- they have not been able to figure out
>> how to build the compiler, hence my idea to use the MinGW binaries.
>>
>>
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>> Best regards,
>> Alex Ionescu
>>
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> Maybe he can just look at our wiki:
> http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Compiling_GCC_From_Windows and fix it so
> that it works ;-)
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