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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-02-29 17:41:39
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, john doe wrote: > > What compiler are you trying to use?!? > > I was using gcc 3.2.3 (mingw port) and 3.2 And they don't support -fm-extensions? I am very surprised! > I should try others versions as well, but thats not the point here, I > have orginally asked why wasn't the patch applied to both the kernel > driver & the library, that wasn't quite answared yet. I did it in the kernel because people kept complaining that it didn't compile for them and I got bored of answering the support requests so I did the change. For the user space code it is very different. We have ./configure which detects what compiler you are using and tells you to get lost if your compiler doesn't support -fms-extensions. And that's fine with me. Unnamed structs and unions are damn nice C feature and I can't understand why the gcc mob don't just support them straight out. They are IMO incredibly useful in making code look nice and simple and give some inteligence to the compiler. I personally really, really like them. That's why they are there and I would really like them to stay there but if you have a good reason why they don't work for you then I am willing to have them removed like I did in the kernel. I still don't understand why you have a problem with the unnamed structs and unions considering your gcc should support them... Could you explain? > I am willing to take the job, once you choose the naming format. Cool. How about you do the first part using the same naming format as in the kernel for a start? I am not convinced I want the existing code modified to use abstractions beyond that otherwise the kernel code would look completely different to the utilities and I _hate_ those functions/macros that hide structures in them and considering I am really the only person working on the kernel driver I am not going to start using something I hate there... (-; Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
