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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch rfc 1/3] xen arch header rework.

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch rfc 1/3] xen arch header rework.
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:04:11 +0100
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:44:37AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:

> I like this approach (although I don't like Perl, but at least it's better
> than reams of bash, which is definitely the pits ;-). The Solaris guys won't
> like the gcc attributes, but they can add some flexibility to the script to
> target the pragmas/extensions of their own compiler.

GCC is fine for the tools and Xen itself; we don't anticipate using
anything other than GCC for those.

We only need the public header files to be compiler-agnostic (or, at
least, support both GCC and Sun cc).

regards
john

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