Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:30:33 +0200
From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 1/2] machine struct - use C99 initializers
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > This patch simply converts all the machine structs to use C99 style 
> > initializers. There is no actual code change in this.
> 
> Is it really such a good idea to do this?  I mean, the only real change 
> you make here is to break compilation on compilers that do not grok C99 
> (or do it badly).

AFAICS Qemu is still stuck with GCC3 or later. Are you aware of a GCC 3.x
version which is capable of building dyngen code but can't handle C99
initializers?


Thiemo