Re: [ros-dev] GCC 4.4

[Daniel Reimer]

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 ;-)