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Re: [Qemu-devel] case A ... B:
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Thiemo Seufer |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] case A ... B: |
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Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:29:00 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) |
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?
The Qemu code generation depends (at least for now) heavily on GCC3 and
its particular behaviour. As long as this is the case I don't see the
point of replacing convenient GNU C extensions.
(Once you manage to get Qemu to work with a different compiler the case
for removing GNU C features will be stronger.)
Thiemo