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Date:      Sun, 3 Jul 2011 23:22:45 +0200
From:      Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] __FreeBSD_kernel__
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2011/7/3 Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 05:47:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>> isn't it enough if support is present in the FreeBSD
>> version of these compilers (for production and development releases of
>> FreeBSD), plus the latest release of the upstream version of each of
>> those compilers?
>
> You may find the gcc team very uninterested in changing things around
> to support FreeBSD.

>From my experience interacting with them, what I know for sure is they
won't add a new macro for FreeBSD unless they get a clear signal that
FreeBSD wants it (e.g. by checking it in its downstream version of
GCC).

Other than that, I don't see a problem with getting a one-line patch
accepted in upstream GCC tree.

-- 
Robert Millan



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