Hi Jason, On 18:34 Fri 12 Dec , Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:38:11PM -0800, Sean Hefty wrote: > > > I installed the Intel compiler (version 11.0.066) and tried using that > > within > > the WDK build environment to build just sminfo. The good news is that > > sminfo > > did build within the WDK environment and run. The bad news is that every > > change > > to sminfo.c that was posted was still needed by the Intel compiler, plus it > > required a couple of other changes as well. :( > > Well, I'm not sure what is up with the const thing since thats bog > standard C89 even, but the structure initializers and the Intel > compiler are a matter of using the GCC extension vs C99: > > - [SMINFO_MASTER] "SMINFO_MASTER", > + [SMINFO_MASTER] = "SMINFO_MASTER", > > And similarly anything using the 'field: value' should be '.field = > value' for C99. (make sure C99 support is turned on too!) > > Compiling with -std=c99 on Linux will catch several of these issues, > and purging them agressively is generally a good idea.
I agree, it would be a reasonable requirement. > Actually -std=c99 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 is good option set for portable > code written to modern standards (ie SUSv3 and C99) as it purges some > of the uncommon and BSD calls from the library headers and tends to > keep things cleaner. (Though sometimes you need to use _GNU_SOURCE on > some files to access some special functions :() > > But it is all kind of moot if you are attempting to compile without > some POSIX API emulation layer for Windows (SFU, cygwin, etc). > That makes things extra hard, and I'm not sure it is worthwhile for > this particular application. :) > > Ie if you are willing to use MS's SFU you get gcc and a POSIX > compatibility library as part of the SDK install and alot of > problems go away. This could be an interesting option too. In particular I remember a lot of compatibility issues with using pthread library in OpenSM. Thanks for a good ideas. Sasha _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
