Fun with gcc.

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 15:54, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:20:05PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > We _definitely_ need a platform.h file of some kind to stick that kind of
> > thing in.
>
> we already do that in uClibc just like glibc does, so we could just use the
> uClibc header as base

We don't want busybox to require uClibc.  (We want them to play nice, but not 
actually NEED.)

> > Also, doing that could potentially make the darn warning in
> > traceroute.c (the only one we have left!) go away.
>
> sure, if you build busybox as a 32bit binary ... build it as a 64bit and
> you'll see a ton more warnings (about 40 more warnings iirc on amd64)

I haven't got onea them.  (I have, however, recently downloaded qemu which can 
fake one of them, and I plan to play around with it as time permits.  But 
first I downloaded a Red hat 7.2 image, because I'm curious what breaks...)

> -mike

Rob