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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2002-03-10 12:28:22
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Hi, Just for benefit of people reading the list but not knowing what is going on due to Rich and I talking on #ntfs (on IRC on openprojects.net, everyone welcome) here is a brief reply... At 04:11 25/02/02, Richard Russon wrote: >N.B. If you're still in Austria STOP reading and START skiing. I didn't check email from Austria at all. Whenever I walked past the local internet cafe I managed not to walk into it. (-: >I've just spent a while playing about getting anonymous structs and >unions compiling under gcc 2.95. After lots of strange and unusual >ideas, I've come up with something that works well, looks OK and is >easily removeable. Yes, that is great. >I've converted all the TNG code and it now compiles with gcc 2.96, >gcc 2.95 and egcs 2.91.66. Moreover the driver works :-) Excellent. >At the moment the macros are in scripts/ntfsextra.h and a forcibly >included. In this state the code needs a minor bit of rearranging >to compile inline in the kernel source. That is now fixed so the code will compile in the kernel fine. No rearrangements necessary. Once the kernel's compiler requirements are raised to gcc-2.96 or above, all the macros, etc will be blasted into oblivion making the driver nice and clean again. Anton -- "I've not lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere." - Unknown -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
