[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 ;-)