intel driver will only compile with gcc

Donnie Berkholz dberkholz at gentoo.org
Fri Jun 8 10:46:07 PDT 2007


On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:39:19 -0700
Kean Johnston <kean at armory.com> wrote:
> Another problem I encountered was i830_exa.c tries to use variable
> argument macros, which are not as portable as one would like. Not long
> ago there was a discussion about this and it was deemed unacceptable
> to use C99-only features, becuase X.org should be able to compile on
> a broader set of platforms than those that support C99.
> 
> Does the author want to address this or should I submit a patch?

xserver/doc/c-extensions says those are allowed in the server, which I
presume extends to apply to drivers as well.

Thanks,
Donnie
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