On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
>> Arno, do you have objections to me applying the attached patch to the 4.5
>> branch? It makes it possible to build (and bootstrap) the Ada compiler on
>> the
>> 4.5 branch (oldest supported branch) with the 4.6 compiler, which is now the
>
> It is a bad idiom, given that we already had >= 10 __GNUC_MINOR__ and it
> is possible we'll have 4.10 as well.
> E.g. __GNUC_PREREQ macro in glibc shifts left major by 16, but even
> multiplying by 100 instead of 10 is better.
OK, we'll change the idiom on mainline.
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Eric Botcazou
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:08:50AM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > Shouldn't this be * 100 and > 405 ? I mean, we already had GCC
> > 2.95, 2.96, 2.97 and 20 + 95 is > 45...
>
> This idiom is the one already used in tracebak.c for example. Would that
> really matter in practice?
It is a bad id
> Well, we don't guarantee such compatibility in general,
> so I'd like to make it clear that people shouldn't expect this combination
> to work, and if more complex patches are submitted, we'll likely NOT
> integrate them.
That's mainly for GCC developers; without this, it will be a pain to keep
> Shouldn't this be * 100 and > 405 ? I mean, we already had GCC
> 2.95, 2.96, 2.97 and 20 + 95 is > 45...
This idiom is the one already used in tracebak.c for example. Would that
really matter in practice?
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Eric Botcazou
> Arno, do you have objections to me applying the attached patch to the 4.5
> branch? It makes it possible to build (and bootstrap) the Ada compiler on the
> 4.5 branch (oldest supported branch) with the 4.6 compiler, which is now the
> system compiler in recent Linux distributions.
Well, we don'
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:36:52AM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> --- init.c(revision 186078)
> +++ init.c(working copy)
> @@ -86,6 +86,9 @@
>
> /* Global values computed by the binder. */
> int __gl_main_priority = -1;
> +#if (__GNUC__ * 10 + __GNUC_MINOR__ > 45)
Sho
Arno, do you have objections to me applying the attached patch to the 4.5
branch? It makes it possible to build (and bootstrap) the Ada compiler on the
4.5 branch (oldest supported branch) with the 4.6 compiler, which is now the
system compiler in recent Linux distributions.
The patch backport
