GCC 4 ? (aka 'oops, they did it again)

[Pype.Clicker]

just to let you know: i'm reinstalling workstation (SuSE->ubuntu). First bad surprise: kubuntu comes with no compiler or even /usr/include preinstalled... second bad surprise, default version of GCC is GCC 4 ...

and my main concern with GCC 4.x is that it appears to generate code that uses "memset" or "memcpy" regardless of locally-defined inline functions ... As a result my good old "memops.h" are no longer protecting me from "missing 'memset' in .thread.o ..." error messages ...

The code i write that triggers such code generation is structure initialization, e.g.

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   *ptr = (struct MyStruct) {
      .field1=val1,
     // field2 will be initialized to a nul value by the compiler.
      .field3=val3,
   };

[stonedzealot]

sudo apt-get install gcc-3.3

Wouldn't that do you some good?

I'm a gentoo user myself, so I'm not sure how they switch between installed instances of GCC, but gcc-config is the application here.

[Candy]

just to let you know: i'm reinstalling workstation (SuSE->ubuntu). First bad surprise: kubuntu comes with no compiler or even /usr/include preinstalled... second bad surprise, default version of GCC is GCC 4 ...

Did you compile a cross-compiler? If not, why not try if that works better?

You can try compile options to GCC 4 that'll make it freestanding or such, which would help with this I think.

In the worst case, make a gcc 3 cross compiler.

The way to do it is of course in the FAQ.

(I never thought I'd be referring you to the FAQ)

[Pype.Clicker]

well, i have indeed 'apt-get'd gcc-3 (and i'll probably apt-get 2.95.3 aswell since it's in the apt-cache aswell ...

Building a cross-compiler is on my todo list (and well, i quite know it's in the FAQ, thanks Solar for that ... however i'm rather trying to integrate support about those 'specificities' into the build system rather than requiring people to build a proper GCC first and then only building clicker ...

If you wish to compile Clicker under cygwin, that's just fine. SET OSTYPE=cygwin should be all you'll have to do: i have support for both ELF and COFF included