Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:23:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:23:16 -0500 Received: from Cantor.suse.de ([194.112.123.193]:39941 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:23:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:23:06 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Alan Cox Cc: Tim Riker , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: non-gcc linux? (was Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10?) Message-ID: <20001102222306.A15754@gruyere.muc.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <3A01D6D1.44BD66FE@Rikers.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:17:44PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/