Re: [PATCH] Remove more gcc extension usage.
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- Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
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- Jul 10, 2006, 06:14 UTC
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- <20060710061459.GY22573@lug-owl.de>
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- <20060710052255.GA15173@spearce.org>
On Mon, 2006-07-10 01:22:55 -0400, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> > On Sat, 2006-07-08 15:03:27 -0400, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote: > > > Monday I'll look to see if there's an option that can be given to > > > the Solaris compiler to make it accept these constructs. Maybe a > > > simple CFLAGS change in my config.mak would resolve what this patch > > > was trying to do. > > So neither of the constructs my patch removes are supported in this > (old) compiler, although a newer one might accept them with -xc99. > Yes, I tried building a pristine git-1.4.1 with -xc99. It barfed, > as one would expect given the description above. > > Since we don't have a newer version of cc available (not sure why) > I'm stuck with needing to make the code changes in my patch just > to get GIT to compile.
What about installing a compiler that implements more of C99, like installing a gcc instance? I guess you're on a Sun system, there should be precompiled binaries available.
MfG, JBG
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