Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [5055] Handle terminating signals (Gerd Hoffmann)

[Anthony Liguori]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> > I do check for warnings.  The version of GCC I'm using (3.4.6 20060404
> > (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)) does not complain about these things.  We probably
> > should add -Wall to the build and take the time to fix up all of the
> > warnings that occur.
> >     
>
> Makes /me wonder why 3.4 thinks there is no problem here (while this is
> obviously wrong).
>
> Being lazy and SuSE-based (which only provides a 3.3.3 for such legacy
> use cases, IIRC), and also remembering vaguely that there used to be
> warnings about 3.4 /wrt qemu, I kept 3.3.3.
>   

Could just be that more warnings are enabled by default with your 
particular version of GCC.

> BTW, do you also check for 64-bit issues? My feeling is that this - at
> least - used to be a rare host platform for qemu contributors.
>   

I run a 64-bit host.

I run Fedora 9 x86_64.  I have as many optional libraries installed as 
possible.  I also have a mingw32 cross compiler setup that I use to test 
the windows build.  The mingw32 compiler is gcc4 and throws an awful lot 
of warnings.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan
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