[PATCH] __FreeBSD_kernel__

Robert Millan rmh at debian.org
Sun Jul 3 21:22:47 UTC 2011


2011/7/3 Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 05:47:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>> isn't it enough if support is present in the FreeBSD
>> version of these compilers (for production and development releases of
>> FreeBSD), plus the latest release of the upstream version of each of
>> those compilers?
>
> You may find the gcc team very uninterested in changing things around
> to support FreeBSD.

>From my experience interacting with them, what I know for sure is they
won't add a new macro for FreeBSD unless they get a clear signal that
FreeBSD wants it (e.g. by checking it in its downstream version of
GCC).

Other than that, I don't see a problem with getting a one-line patch
accepted in upstream GCC tree.

-- 
Robert Millan


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