Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.5.0

[p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk]

For those, like me, who have no idea what mudflap is:

http://www.stlinux.com/devel/debug/mudflap

It seems it is an attempt to fix some of the horrible things that C
can do but it really shouldn't be able to do. :-)

"locking the stable door after the horse has bolted" springs to mind.

Peter

>---- Original Message ----
>From: Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>
>To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi
>Sent: Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 9:58 PM
>Subject: Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.5.0
>
>Le 20/04/2010 20:50, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
>> What happens if one uses them to compile MiNT kernel itself
>> (besides things slowing down a lot with mudflap)?  :-)
>
>Hmmm... Probably bad things, as the libc is used at least to display 
>messages, and mudflap use wrappers around libc functions...
>But this should be tried. We could ask somewhere if it is possible to use 
>these features with the Linux kernel, the problem is probably similar.
>
>-- 
>Vincent Rivière