On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 01:35:23AM +0000, Sam James wrote:
> 
> Yang Yujie <yangyu...@loongson.cn> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 10:45:22AM -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 12/6/23 05:12, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> > * Yang Yujie:
> >> > 
> >> > > From: Yang Yujie <yangyu...@loongson.cn>
> >> > > Subject: [PATCH] testsuite: Adjust for the new permerror
> >> > >   -Wincompatible-pointer-types
> >> > > To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> >> > > Cc: r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de, mikest...@comcast.net, 
> >> > > fwei...@redhat.com,
> >> > >   Yang Yujie <yangyu...@loongson.cn>
> >> > > Date: Wed,  6 Dec 2023 10:29:31 +0800 (9 hours, 42 minutes, 7 seconds 
> >> > > ago)
> >> > > Message-ID: <20231206022931.33437-1-yangyu...@loongson.cn>
> >> > > 
> >> > > r14-6037 turned -Wincompatible-pointer-types into a permerror,
> >> > > which causes the following tests to fail.
> >> > > 
> >> > > gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:
> >> > > 
> >> > >        * gcc.dg/fixed-point/composite-type.c: replace dg-warning with 
> >> > > dg-error.
> >> > > ---
> >> > >   .../gcc.dg/fixed-point/composite-type.c       | 64 
> >> > > +++++++++----------
> >> > >   1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> >> > 
> >> > Looks reasonable to me, but I can't approve it.
> >> We might want to fix that from a policy standpoint :-)
> >> 
> >> Regardless, this is OK for the trunk.  Thanks Yang for taking care of it.  
> >> I
> >> don't see you in the maintainers file, so I'll go ahead and push it
> >> momentarily.
> >> 
> >> jeff
> >
> > Thanks for the review!
> >
> > With this patch, I also noticed a few errors in building unpatched older
> > software like expect-5.45.4, perl-5.28.3 and bash-5.0.  Will this also be
> > the case when GCC 14 gets released?
> >
> 
> Old versions of software will need to be patched or built with
> -fpermissive. We are working on fixing supported versions of software
> and sending patches upstream - please do join in if you're able, as
> the more help the better.
> 
> It is normal for software to need porting to newer compilers. For
> example, https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-10/porting_to.html (-fcommon).
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Yujie
> 
> thanks,
> sam

Got it, thanks.

Yujie

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