Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-08-01 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Paul Brook wrote: > The gcc4 changes are a different matter. I discusses this with Fabrice on > IRC > shortly after submitting the patch. The patch is pretty invasive, high risk, > and potentially hard to debug and maintain. Talking of which, I don't know if I have sent y

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-07-30 Thread Paul Brook
> Given that QEMU can support the current release of GCC on Windows by > changing less than 40 lines of code in one file, can we please begin > discussing the inclusion of these changes in the main codebase? > Explicitly specifying this one variable name in a preprocessor directive > doesn't lo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-07-30 Thread Paul Brook
> I'm not sure what you mean about the patch "not being necessary". I > haven't tried building with Cygwin, so I can't speak for that platform. > My build environment is MinGW with the MSYS shell (to avoid onerous > licensing issues and DLL dependencies), and I can assure that the patch > very

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-07-30 Thread Steve D. Perkins
Christian MICHON wrote: First rule of (efficient) engineering: <> for the record: gcc-3.3-x is *fine* and *most* stable, not just on windows. It's still my reference compiler even for linux kernels. Why do you feel it's necessary to upgrade? Because gcc people do? Don't get me wrong, Ch

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-07-30 Thread Steve D. Perkins
Paul Brook wrote: "sledgehammer" and "nut" spring to mind :-) The attached patch is sufficient to get qemu working on win32 when compiled with gcc3.4. I've successfully booted a knoppix CD inside qemu on a windows host with this patch. The problem was that gcc is choosing inconvenient names

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-07-30 Thread Christian MICHON
First rule of (efficient) engineering: <> for the record: gcc-3.3-x is *fine* and *most* stable, not just on windows. It's still my reference compiler even for linux kernels. Why do you feel it's necessary to upgrade? Because gcc people do? There's *no* speed improvement, as far as I can see (wel

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-07-30 Thread Filip Navara
Hi! Steve D. Perkins wrote: Paul Brook wrote: Are you sure you included the correct patch? I don't see anything win32 specific about this patch. AFAICS it's just the gcc4 patch *that I wrote* and posed some time ago. Both cygwin and mingw is still using gcc3.4.x, so it shouldn't be necessa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-07-30 Thread Steve D. Perkins
Paul Brook wrote: Are you sure you included the correct patch? I don't see anything win32 specific about this patch. AFAICS it's just the gcc4 patch *that I wrote* and posed some time ago. Both cygwin and mingw is still using gcc3.4.x, so it shouldn't be necessary. Paul - Please don'

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-07-30 Thread Paul Brook
On Saturday 30 July 2005 19:42, Steve D. Perkins wrote: > Hello all - > > I wrote to the list a few days ago to gauge interest in adding > support for GCC in the Win32 environment to the QEMU codebase. I > received no response to that inquiry, but decided to update my patch for > the 0.7.1 rel

[Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

2005-07-30 Thread Steve D. Perkins
Hello all - I wrote to the list a few days ago to gauge interest in adding support for GCC in the Win32 environment to the QEMU codebase. I received no response to that inquiry, but decided to update my patch for the 0.7.1 release anyway in hopes that it will be of use to people. The pat