Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

[Andreas Färber]

Am 28.07.2007 um 12:36 schrieb Thiemo Seufer:

> > qemu seems to expect everyone to patch it herself instead of fixing
> > problems in the repository at their origin. Major example being qemu
> > clinging on to GCC 3.x instead of supporting both 3 and 4 by  
> > updating and
> > integrating the existing patches that worked for 0.9.0.
>
> The patches I remember did either break other compilers or were a
> maintenance nightmare of postprocessed assembler output.

I didn't say the particular patch was perfect, I can't tell. All I  
know is that there are platforms that don't have a GCC 3.x (the Intel  
Macs for instance), and syncing the existing 0.9.0 patches with CVS  
HEAD is like shooting for a running target - I didn't manage to  
successfully update the patch, it crashed badly. Having some initial,  
conditional support for GCC 4 (e.g. --enable-gcc4 or depending on $CC  
version) would be good. Do you know where exactly the problem is  
between the versions and what needs to be done to have it working  
(again)?

Andreas