[mythtv] [PATCH] fifowriter gcc 3.4

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri Jun 4 22:50:46 EDT 2004


On Friday 04 June 2004 10:28 pm, Eric Hattemer wrote:
> So you may program by any standard you want, but it seems to me, your
> code may soon stop working.  Maybe the gcc people reversed this decision
> in CVS or for 3.4.1, but otherwise, you'd have to take this up with
> them.  I don't understand the resistance to this patch.  A typedef
> disappears well before runtime, right?  This patch doesn't hurt gcc <3.4
> people, but helps gcc >=3.4 people to compile mythtv without having to
> mod the files themselves.  If you can think of a better way around it,
> like an interesting way of removing the ()'s, submit that patch
> instead.  Otherwise, this one has seemed to work fine for me.

There isn't any resistance to the patch, Matt was just curious as to why it 
was necessary.  In my current local source tree, I'm almost done testing just 
removing the parens and I actually fixed rtjpeg.c instead of saying to just 
use -fpermissive.  It'll be in my next commit, whenever that is.

Isaac


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