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Re: [Xen-devel] Minimum gcc version

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Minimum gcc version
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:45:25 +0000
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> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:37:03PM -0800, Kip Macy wrote:
> > > Use 1.2 - it supposedly fixes this as well as other issues.
> > 
> > Hmm.  xen 1.2 still generates the same parse errors under gcc 2.95.  gcc
> > 3.0 works with both 1.1 and 1.2.  Debian woody stock packages.
> 
> Grr.. This looks due to our cheesy strategy of copying the gcc stock
> stdarg.h into the Xen tree (so that we can then specify -nostdinc and
> not get other random 'standard' headers pulled in).
> 
> I guess the stdarg.h packaged with various versions of gcc are
> mutually incompatible.

Okay, I tested this out myself and reproduced the error. I've pushed a
suitable fix for 1.2 and 1.3 (the current unstable release). 

 -- Keir


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