Re: PPC Linux 64 needs -fsigned-char option for gcc

2013-01-11 Thread Sean Chou
Hi Volker, Do you have any idea about the modification considering David Holmes' comments ? On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Volker Simonis wrote: > Hi Sean, > > honestly speaking, I wasn't aware of this problem until now and I just > checked that we currently don't use this option, neither int

Re: PPC Linux 64 needs -fsigned-char option for gcc

2012-12-21 Thread David Holmes
One thing that would be nice to come out of this porting effort is better organisation of platform specific aspects. I would prefer to see an arch.make file for each arch rather than have all these platform specific sections. (It was fine when you only had a couple of flavours but now the balan

Re: PPC Linux 64 needs -fsigned-char option for gcc

2012-12-21 Thread Volker Simonis
Hi Sean, honestly speaking, I wasn't aware of this problem until now and I just checked that we currently don't use this option, neither internally nor in our port. I found the following nice explanation of the issue: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_71.html It seems that yo

Re: PPC Linux 64 needs -fsigned-char option for gcc

2012-12-21 Thread Alan Bateman
On 21/12/2012 09:40, Sean Chou wrote: Hello, We found -fsigned-char is added to ppc platform, but not added to ppc64 platform. As they are different platforms, I think it is needed for ppc64 as well. Currently I just added one line modification as follow, but there may be more places to modify.

PPC Linux 64 needs -fsigned-char option for gcc

2012-12-21 Thread Sean Chou
Hello, We found -fsigned-char is added to ppc platform, but not added to ppc64 platform. As they are different platforms, I think it is needed for ppc64 as well. Currently I just added one line modification as follow, but there may be more places to modify. If some one can give some comments, I ca