Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] buildsys: More fixes to use GCC on macOS

[Akihiko Odaki]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 9:06 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
>
> Few fixes to be able to use GCC extensions which are not
> available on Clang.
>
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (4):
>   osdep: Avoid using Clang-specific __builtin_available()
>   osdep: Un-inline qemu_thread_jit_execute/write
>   audio: Rename coreaudio extension to use Objective-C compiler
>   ui/cocoa: Ignore 'initializer overrides' warnings
>
>  audio/{coreaudio.c => coreaudio.m} |  0
>  audio/meson.build                  |  2 +-
>  include/qemu/osdep.h               | 21 ++-------------------
>  ui/cocoa.m                         |  5 +++++
>  util/osdep.c                       | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>  rename audio/{coreaudio.c => coreaudio.m} (100%)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>

Compiler portability is always nice to have. Making QEMU on macOS
compatible with GCC is good, but I don't think that would justify
abandoning compatibility with Clang.

Regards,
Akihiko Odaki