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Ship it!


The fewer unusual differences between platforms, the better.

- wdoekes


On Oct. 16, 2014, 10:18 p.m., George Joseph wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 16, 2014, 10:18 p.m.)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers and Corey Farrell.
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> Repository: Asterisk
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> Description
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> gcc on the ARM platform defaults 'char' to 'unsigned char' whereas Intel and 
> SPARC default to 'signed char'.  This is only an issue in the rare cases 
> where negative values are assigned to a 'char' but this this patch insures 
> compatibility by detecting platforms that default to 'unsigned' and adding an 
> '-fsigned-char' flag to _ASTCFLAGS.
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> The change to autoconfig.h.in is a harmless addition produced by configure.in.
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> If compiling for ARM (native or cross-compile) be sure to run ./bootstrap.sh 
> and ./configure to regenerate the build files.  You shouldn't have to do this 
> for Intel or SPARC.
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> Diffs
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>   branches/12/makeopts.in 425744 
>   branches/12/include/asterisk/autoconfig.h.in 425744 
>   branches/12/configure.ac 425744 
>   branches/12/configure UNKNOWN 
>   branches/12/Makefile 425744 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/4091/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested native ARM, native Intel, cross-compile Intel->ARM, and native SPARC.  
> The -fsigned-char flag was only generated on native ARM and cross-compile ARM.
> There were no build errors.
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> Thanks,
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> George Joseph
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