[Python-Dev] HEADS UP: Compilation risk with new GCC 4.5.0

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:39 AM, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
>> I think you'll be a lot happier just modifying Psyco than making everyone
>> else in the world change their compiler flags.
>
> Aye, there's the rub. Nobody's happier modifying Psyco. :)  But that
> just means people will gradually have to stop using psyco in favor of
> maintainable JITs. Gcc's not going to change its stack requirements
> just because some people think they know what the ABI should be better
> than the people defining the ABI. Btw, this has been a problem since
> at least gcc-4.4.

Heh.

psyco already does it for Mac OS X (which defines 16 byte stack
alignment as ABI), so should be super trivial. Good rant Jeffrey
though.

Cheers,
fijal