Re: build system: gcc_cv_libc_provides_ssp and NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR

2008-10-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:37:50 +0200, a écrit :
> Ideally, IMO, this test (for stack-smashing-protection support in glibc)
> should not be done by grepping through SYSROOT's features.h, but instead
> by using the CPP for doing that.  The problem is that CPP has not yet
> been bulit at the place where the test is currently been done (in GCC's
> configure).

Err, ok but can't we use the host's cpp?  That one is supposed to be
able to parse features.h

Samuel


Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ian Lance Taylor, le Mon 25 Mar 2013 08:22:15 -0700, a écrit :
> > - What would be a skill level estimate for someone wishing to try this
> > project in an attempt to get his feet wet in compiler engineering?
> 
> Unfortunately it's hard for me to judge.  The most important skill
> would be the ability to dig into some large code bases and understand
> how to change them.

Agreed.  I don't think there would be much about compiler engineering
actually, but rather about runtime and system calls.

Samuel


Re: setcontext et al. functions (was: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.)

2013-06-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Tue 11 Jun 2013 10:27:09 +0200, a écrit :
> Anyway, Samuel, would you please
> put the current »tg patch t/context_functions« as a new patch into the
> Debian glibc package?

Yep, it is done, waiting for next upload.

Samuel


Re: Tool chain configuration: GNU/* sharing stuff with GNU/Linux

2007-11-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Sun 11 Nov 2007 15:58:08 +0100, a écrit :
> To state this intended similarity clearly, one could rename, e.g.,
> `config/linux.h' to `config/gnu-shared.h' and then have a new (nearly
> empty) file `config/linux.h' additionally to the existing `config/gnu.h',
> `config/kfreebsd-gnu.h', etc. to do the remaining few customizations.

That'd make things much more clear (and fix the OPTION_GLIBC etc. bugs
btw).

Samuel


Re: Failures building glibc with mainline GCC

2021-08-03 Thread Samuel Thibault via Gcc
Joseph Myers, le mar. 03 août 2021 17:21:59 +, a ecrit:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, Martin Sebor via Gcc wrote:
> 
> > Yes, we know about that one.  What I'm asking for is the translation
> > units with the other warnings you showed with the latest GCC (including
> > the threader patches) on the other targets (including i686 and power).
> > I don't have an easy way to create them using my setup.
> 
> I've attached (all gzipped) hurdselect.i (i686-gnu, -O2 -Wall -Werror 
> -Wno-parentheses):
> 
> hurdselect.c: In function '_hurd_select':
> hurdselect.c:555:7: error: 'ss' may be used uninitialized in this function 
> [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> hurdselect.c:70:25: note: 'ss' was declared here

That's a spurious warning, but I have pushed a trivial workaround.

Samuel