[gentoo-dev] Re: using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-17 Thread Sven Köhler
> then it's broken by design ... sure the idea about how qemu goes about its > emulation is pretty goddamn cool, but gcc has never said that you can rely on > certain behavior very right! but you cannot change the world :-( signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-17 Thread Sven Köhler
> I've been thinking about this recently. What qemu does is compile a C > implementation of the target processor's instruction set into an object > file when qemu is built, then at run-time (JIT time) it cut-n-pastes > bits of that object file when it "compiles" the target executable into > native

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Arek (James Potts)
Sven Köhler wrote: some software, like qemu and others, are simply not compatible with gcc 4.x and they will not become compatible due to severe conceptional issues. then they stay broken ... add a warning to the ebuild if `gcc-major-version` is "4" (see toolchain-funcs.eclass) Hmm

[gentoo-dev] Re: using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Sven Köhler
>> some software, like qemu and others, are simply not compatible with gcc >> 4.x and they will not become compatible due to severe conceptional issues. > > then they stay broken ... add a warning to the ebuild if `gcc-major-version` > is "4" (see toolchain-funcs.eclass) Hmm, but ... there is t