[openbeos] Re: How not to actively prevent a PPC version of your software and write better code at the same time
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 15:13:32 -0500
>> So is it a Metrowerks thing?
>> See - I am not sure that I want to ask developers to nastify up their
>> code like this.
>> The other things that you pointed out are good style, and I can 100%
>> agree with.
>> And having a second compiler like MW is great for that sort of thing.
>> But changing the code with cruft like this is not, IMHO, a worthy
>> endeavor.
>> I know that makes PPC hard/impossible. I 100% understand that. This
>> is, though, the sort
>> of thing that I forsaw when I said that I didn't want to make PPC an
>> "official" piece, right now.
>> We would have to buy into a little more legacy than I feel
>> comfortable with.
>
>It's a non-ELF thing. ELF is the only binary format (AFAIK) that
>exports all symbols by default. I can turn on -export all in mwld, but
>then we get pages of warnings like this, which I would vastly prefer
>not to have, and can be detrimental to the app function in some cases.
>-Nathan
>
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If that is the case, I would say definately turn on export all and deal with it
for now. I think that is a much better path, since it is short term, than asking
every developer to put extraneous stuff in their headers.
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