hello current users & amiga dev

On my way from 1.0 to -current I received much help from you people:

Thanks.

Yesterday (after my 3rd try to *rebuild everything*) I came to the
following constatation:

I believe (but can't yet prove, my amiga is doing it all over again)
that one *really* needs the NetBSD supplied compiler (2.4.5) in order
to make correct targets.

If this would be so then, personally, I would find this a pity. As
indicated below the effort in upgrading is probabably not very big.

I came to the 'constatation' as follows:

- I used gcc 2.6.2 and
-- compiled -current kernel
-- booted from -current kernel
-- compiled ps (since old one did not work anymore)
-- compiled and installed lib **** oops **** libc.so gave the following trouble:

main() { printf("%d\n", 12345); } prints 1 (i.s.o. 12345)

I looked at vfprintf.c and found possible indications for the 'problem'

vfprintf.c uses:

#ifdef __GNUC__			/* gcc has builtin quad type (long long) SOS */
#define	quad_t	  long long
#define	u_quad_t  unsigned long long
#endif

and:

#define	SARG() \
	(flags&QUADINT ? va_arg(ap, quad_t) : \
	    flags&LONGINT ? va_arg(ap, long) : \
	    flags&SHORTINT ? (long)(short)va_arg(ap, int) : \
	    (long)va_arg(ap, int))
#define	UARG() \
	(flags&QUADINT ? va_arg(ap, u_quad_t) : \
	    flags&LONGINT ? va_arg(ap, u_long) : \
	    flags&SHORTINT ? (u_long)(u_short)va_arg(ap, int) : \
	    (u_long)va_arg(ap, u_int))

First of all, *somebody* must have had a reason to put the 'SOS' there
:-) Second, I am not sure if all cpp versions of gnu handle nested
macros equally well.  Third, I certainly don't know if all cc1 versions
handle long long equally well.

Of course, these are minor problems and if the *only* compiler version dependencies
would be that easy, why not try to upgrade ?

Another question: why did people use #define in the first place i.s.o.

typedef long long quad_t;
typedef unsigned long long u_quad_t;

I asked myself this question too late (after a 'make clean' on lib, see
below). maybe that's all there is to get it going (I *will* check this
later).

I build the compiler that came with NetBSD and I will build everything
from scratch again.


 Greetings,

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