On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:01:36AM +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > hi everybody, > > r218745 triggered quite a discussion about dead code in boot2.c. i talked to > roman (rdivacky@) and we were trying to improve the situation so that boot2 > would build with clang 2.8 (base) and the latest development version of > clang (trunk). a lot of the ideas came from Bruce (bde@). > > i'd really appreciate, if somebody could have a look at this patchset. for me > it strips down the boot2 code so clang is able to compile it just fine. please > bear in mind that this has to work with boot2 supporting UFS1 *and* UFS2. so > please be sure not to override BOOT2_UFS in your src.conf or some place else. > > you should be able to test the (hopefully sucessfully) compiled boot2 binary > by copying it to /boot. please be sure to keep a backup of your existing boot2 > file in case something breaks. no, just copying it to /boot is not enough. you have to run bsdlabel -B to actually install it
> the patchset (against a recent HEAD) can be found here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~arundel/patches/boot2.c.diff2 the patch is wrong - you cant remove a.out support as "loader" still uses that I like the int -> unsigned parts of the patch and also the memsize() removal may be interesting. roman _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
