Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:54:28 -0800 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Approval to fix non-GCC users of <stdarg.h> Message-ID: <20021126205428.A95993@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021126231641.C67382@espresso.q9media.com>; from mike@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:16:41PM -0500 References: <20021126194219.A92609@FreeBSD.org> <20021126231641.C67382@espresso.q9media.com>
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* De: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> [ Data: 2002-11-26 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Approval to fix non-GCC users of <stdarg.h> ] > [re@ probably doesn't need to be CC'd on this thread. I'm sure they > have enough mail to read, but I'll include them anyway.] > > Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > The following patch fixes <stdarg.h> for use on i386 with > > non-GCC consumers... __va_size is defined inside an if GNUC > > block, but not used solely within an if GNUC block. This > > allows me to compile a number of pieces of software I work > > on with TenDRA 4.1.2 on -CURRENT again. > > > > It only "affects" things that would break, behaviour stays > > the same for modern GCC (unrelated block) and for old GCC > > (definition still in scope). > > > > I'd like to get approval to get this in for 5.0. > > I sent David O'Brien a similar patch about a week ago. IIRC, he's > already seeking re@ approval. There are some other issues which > prevented me from completing the latest TenDRA snapshot build. Oh, ok, cool. > 1. The new #warning in <sys/syslimits.h> isn't #if __GNUC__ ... #endif > protected. Adding the protection doesn't fix it for some reason (ie. > it's complaining about unknown CPP syntax in a conditional that > doesn't apply.) I haven't looked to see what the C rule is for this, > but I suspect TenDRA is doing something wrong. The "protect ancient compilers" trick of adding whitespace doesn't fix it. I tossed an email to BDE asking if we should just make it an error, as a warning of that variety doesn't go a long way to preventing such things, but *shrug*. > 2. TenDRA assumes an older POSIX system and makes wrong assumptions > about some limits it happens to duplicate in its version of > <limits.h>. This is a -Yansi / -Ysystem / -Yposix thing, and I haven't *seen* any problems, but I don't know for sure if it is right or not. -- Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer. ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict. FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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