[syslinux] Syslinux 4.06-pre12

Shao Miller sha0.miller at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 09:06:52 PDT 2012


In that case, please accept the attached patch, which seems pretty simple
and which I've tested.  - Shao

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Fleming [mailto:matt at console-pimps.org] 
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 06:15
To: Shao Miller
Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Syslinux 4.06-pre12

On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 05:37 -0400, Shao Miller wrote:
> Hey, Matt.
> 
> I was concerned by comment #4 at the bug-report web-site[1].  By
> co-incidence, the reporter happens to have done some PXE work involving
> PXELINUX and other interesting things[2]. :)

Aha, I see what you mean. I think we're OK because the non-mingw GCC
variants really shouldn't be turning -mms-bitfields on by default - that
would just seem ludicrous and it would break millions of lines of code.

So, it's true that the incompatibility is not mingw specific and it's
possible to force the issue to appear by compiling with -mms-bitfields.
But we're never going to turn that flag on and the only reason we see
the breakage in win* at all is because some GCC developer turned the
flag on for us by default for the mingw-* targets starting in 4.7.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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