On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:29:45PM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > > On 1/27/2011 23:26, Julian Sikorski wrote: > > > I have just run into an issue with gcc-4.6, namely RPM Fusion's mame > > > failed to compile [1]. I was told that #include<stddef.h> was missing. > > > So I have two questions: why did including this header directly became > > > necessary (code builds fine with 4.5) and are there any other issues we > > > package monkeys might run into with a new compiler? > > > > GCC 4.6 changed a lot of compiler warnings to errors, so a lot of code > > (especially C++ code) that used to get away with violations like > > omitting headers or assigning to un-assignable things will now fail to > > build. > > Care to share details? Of course there were many changes in the C++ FE, > especially for C++0x, and maybe some warnings changed into errors, but > nothing I'd describe as a lot. We haven't still written > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/porting_to.html so if you have interesting > info about changes that affect a lot of packages, details would be > certainly > welcome. The STL changes not to include <cstddef> internally is certainly > one thing that will be added there. > > Jakub > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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