Nathaniel Filardo wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am attempting to port QEMU to Plan 9 for the Google Summer of Code. > A big chunk (in terms of diff line count) of the work that has been > done on this before was to convert all the lines of the form > case A ... B: > to be individual case arms as required by Plan 9's C compiler. There > are currently 200 lines in the code base that use this GNU C > extension, which limits the portability of QEMU to platforms with GCC > or a C compiler supporting this particular GNUism. Would a > bulk-conversion patch be accepted?
The Qemu code generation depends (at least for now) heavily on GCC3 and its particular behaviour. As long as this is the case I don't see the point of replacing convenient GNU C extensions. (Once you manage to get Qemu to work with a different compiler the case for removing GNU C features will be stronger.) Thiemo
