Re: [Qemu-devel] case A ... B:

[Paul Brook]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Nathaniel Filardo wrote:
> Greetings all.
>
> I am attempting to port QEMU to Plan 9 for the Google Summer of Code.
> A big chunk (in terms of diff line count) of the work that has been
> done on this before was to convert all the lines of the form
>     case A ... B:
> to be individual case arms as required by Plan 9's C compiler.  There
> are currently 200 lines in the code base that use this GNU C
> extension, which limits the portability of QEMU to platforms with GCC
> or a C compiler supporting this particular GNUism.  Would a
> bulk-conversion patch be accepted?

qemu already required other gcc extensions for dyngen to work, so IMHO there's 
no point removing the other extensions until you remove that.

Paul