gcc 4.6 for package monkeys

[sarfraj khanjade]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:29:45PM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> > On 1/27/2011 23:26, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> > > I have just run into an issue with gcc-4.6, namely RPM Fusion's mame
> > > failed to compile [1]. I was told that #include<stddef.h>  was missing.
> > > So I have two questions: why did including this header directly became
> > > necessary (code builds fine with 4.5) and are there any other issues we
> > > package monkeys might run into with a new compiler?
> >
> > GCC 4.6 changed a lot of compiler warnings to errors, so a lot of code
> > (especially C++ code) that used to get away with violations like
> > omitting headers or assigning to un-assignable things will now fail to
> > build.
>
> Care to share details?  Of course there were many changes in the C++ FE,
> especially for C++0x, and maybe some warnings changed into errors, but
> nothing I'd describe as a lot.  We haven't still written
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/porting_to.html so if you have interesting
> info about changes that affect a lot of packages, details would be
> certainly
> welcome.  The STL changes not to include <cstddef> internally is certainly
> one thing that will be added there.
>
>        Jakub
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