Re: [ros-dev] GCC 4.4

[Daniel Reimer]

Alex Ionescu wrote:
>   So? What's the status on this? It's almost
> been a month.
>
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Daniel Reimer
>  <daniel.reimer(a)stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>  wrote:
>     
> >   Alex Ionescu wrote:
> >       
> > >   Hi,
> > >
> > >  On 25-Aug-09, at 12:48 PM, Dmitry Gorbachev wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >         
> > > >  > Overwriting constant strings is a very real
> > > > error and should be
> > > > > fixed.
> > > > > Code like this would crash in Windows, for example.
> > > > >
> > > > >            
> > > >  These warnings do not mean overwriting, simply passing a string
> > > >  constant to a function which takes char *; a potential, not
> > > >  necessarily a real error. It is allowed in C, not in C++.
> > > >
> > > >            
> > >  So they still deserve fixing :)
> > >
> > >
> > >         
> > > >   Of course, it would be good to check all
> > > > warnings, some can be bugs.
> > > >  Not all useful warnings are included in -Wall. It may be worth to
> > > >  activate more.
> > > >
> > > >  But warnings should not deter from adoption of GCC 4.4.
> > > >
> > > >            
> > >  I agree, but switching compilers is a great time to fix some warnings.
> > >  It would take less then a day to fix the ones present today.
> > >
> > >
> > >         
> > > >            
> > > > > So as I said, ReactOS need an in-tree version of libgcc with proper
> > > > > support for __enable_execute_stack for kernel-mode.
> > > > >
> > > > >            
> > > >  It is not needed in user-mode, too. Nested functions are only used by
> > > >  PSEH2, and it works well without __enable_execute_stack()
> > > >
> > > >            
> > >  Sure, but that's not the only reason why an in-tree libgcc is a
> > > good
> > >  idea.
> > >
> > >  Is your GCC 4.4 built on Windows or Linux? If Windows, perhaps it
> > >  could become part of RosBE -- they have not been able to figure out
> > >  how to build the compiler, hence my idea to use the MinGW binaries.
> > >
> > >
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> > > >            
> > >  Best regards,
> > >  Alex Ionescu
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >          
> >  Maybe he can just look at our wiki:
> >  http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Compiling_GCC_From_Windows and fix it so
> >  that it works ;-)
> >
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- Colin wants to build a GCC with more optimal settings than the 
official one when he got some
   spare time.
- I added a new log three days ago which shows the linking errors too.
- Some devs started to fix warnings and errors we get.