Re: [MiNT] gcc4 vs gcc2 crash "test case"

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> writes:

> The file gendefs.c displays the offsets of the different memebers of the
> structures. It must be compiled with the target compiler in order to have
> the good offsets (they really vary among the platforms because of
> different alignement requirements). But it that case it can only be run on
> the target for generating the file quakedef68k.i. I don't know how a
> cross-compiler could determine the structure offsets et run time. A
> solution would be to provide the file quakedef68k.i with the sources, but
> it would be less safe.

Such offsets can easily be extracted from the assembler output of the
compiler, see the Linux kernel for a good example.

Andreas.

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