On 02/10/2013 01:39 PM, Alex Leach wrote: > Long story short, I thought I'd have a go at upgrading GCCXML's backend > compiler to GCC4.7.2. I made a fork on github a week ago and have been > working on it since.
Wonderful, I'm glad you've stepped forward to work on this! I've finally had a chance to look through some of the work, though I'm sorry I don't have time now to answer your questions. I just made some changes to upstream gccxml to make this update easier. First I re-tabified all the original GCC sources: https://github.com/gccxml/gccxml/commit/2cbad55dd62f9c13cfab050ff53fc7cffc3515f1 Then I started an "upstream snapshot" branch that extracts the original gcc 4.2.1 sources (like a vendor branch from CVS): https://github.com/gccxml/gccxml/commit/de211e56086124ec676897fd2d779f9c85c773fe and merged it in with "-s ours": https://github.com/gccxml/gccxml/commit/b88a06a4e788723816d9e2db11cbdb74ac9e6e52 That will allow us to extend the upstream snapshot branch with a new gcc version and merge it to bring in upstream changes. I started a topic to do just such an upstream snapshot and merge, published here: https://github.com/bradking/gccxml/tree/update-gcc I resolved the conflicts as described in the merge commit message using your "re-apply" commit for guidance in a few cases (thanks!). This approach preserves history cleanly. Finally, I cherry-picked your build system updates onto the head of the topic, but that is still a work in progress and I have not tried to make the build work yet. Please fetch the topic and take it from here if you have time. I don't know when I'll have time. > If you would be interested in merging any of it back into the main > repository, please let me know and I'll make a Pull Request. I think I > should get it working first, though... If we can get it in good shape I'm interested, of course. This may allow us to support newer compilers that make use of C++11 constructs in their system headers. > One last thing worth mentioning. I had a look at the other fork, by Andrej > Mitrovic, and incorporated some of his feature additions, like putting C++ > attributes into XML tags and detection of Pod, Anon and TypeScoped C++ > Types. Let's keep the gcc update topic separate from new features for now. Thanks, -Brad _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.gccxml.org/mailman/listinfo/gccxml
