[OpenBIOS] ANSI

Klaus Seegebarth kseege at t-online.de
Fri Jun 21 11:36:55 CEST 2002


Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>
> After fiddling a bit more I changed the patch so it does not
> necessarily disable *restrict and other (not-used-yet) features
> from C99 as the upcoming gcc HEAD will probably change the fact
> that these are more or less noops.
> There was some discussion on this list on probing compiler 
> features before actually using them instead of making vague assumptions
> on what version supports which feature. 
> Instead of using a vast amount of autoconf/automake magic, I wrote a
> small perl script that calls the compiler with simple code fragments
> and analyzes these afterwards using nm. This way it is also
> usable when cross compiling. Basically the patch removes types.h 
> as it will be autogenerated plus the already known ANSI fixes (mostly
> applying a regexp to change comment style)
> The configuration script conf.pl also checks for available data types 
> and chooses the needed ones to set up the internal structures.
> gcc's TI mode is probed and, if available and needed, it is used.
>
> Any comments? ;)

Sounds very nice. Particularly because i hope that i can omit it 
and edit "types.h" by hand :-)))

I like automatic things, which _can_ be switched off simply. So i 
would ask for the presence of at least one "generic" types.h file.

Just my 2 EuroCents

Klaus

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