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Re: Problems compiling Mozilla with GCC 4.5
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Ehren Metcalfe <ehren dot m at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, dev-static-analysis at lists dot mozilla dot org
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:17:50 +0000
- Subject: Re: Problems compiling Mozilla with GCC 4.5
- References: <934be2480911242316x6841144cw6484412e9b9e079d@mail.gmail.com>
Ehren Metcalfe wrote:
> I've recently come across a couple of issues trying to compile Firefox
> trunk with 4.5 (I have a very simple plugin that I need to run on
> mozilla-central). I've posted two bugs here
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42139 and here
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42171
>
> I''m not particularly concerned about the first, which can be bypassed
> by disabling optimization on the problem file, but the second, a link
> error, is a show stopper. Can anyone think of a way to sidestep the
> problem? I'm not even sure I've addressed the bug to the right place,
> but it would seem that if the same version of ld chokes during a 4.5
> compile, but does fine with an earlier version of gcc, then it's
> really not a binutils issue. I'm a bit out of my element here though
> so any suggestions would be welcome.
Is the symbol `nsAccessibleWrap::ReturnString(nsAString_internal&)::returnedString'
defined anywhere?
Andrew.