[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev46886 - src/system/kernel/arch/x86/32

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:19:31 +0100

On 18/02/2014 22:49, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Am 18/02/2014 22:07, schrieb Julian Harnath:
>>> compiling it with GCC4 could be directly linked from the GCC2 media
>>> add-on?
>> Great idea, I didn't think about that before, C linkage should work
>> between them.
>> Will try that out soon :)
> 
> Keep in mind that there might be problems if the two compilers have a
> different member alignment within structs. Not sure if that's the case,
> but it could be one source of problems.

And by the way libroot also has some C++ parts inside, although I'm not
entirely sure it would have any effect, but that's what kept me from
even trying to build the C part of NetSurf with gcc4 despite huge
presure to drop C89 in their code even if I seldom have anything to fix
on this topic.

François.


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