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Re: Extension compatibility policy
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 08:21 -0800, Dale Johannesen wrote:
> Current patches of this nature include the inclusion of strict-
> aliasing in -O2, writable strings, and casts as lvalues, and I'm sure
> there are others. (So if you really want any of those, you can pick
> it up from Apple's branch:) I don't promise our patches work on
> anything but PowerPC, though.)
It would be nice if there was a gcc compatibility patchset that could be
used to produce a compiler that accepted old sources, independent from
your other changes.
>From what I understand Apples GCC is quite different from regular GCC,
and iirc your KHTML changes are undocumented. I don't know if the same
policy applies here but if so I'd rather not wade through the
differential looking for them.
Are these compatibility patches available in discrete diff form
anywhere?
thanks -mike