loader: Add --compile-info option to Wine.

[Austin English]

Another factor to consider is that individual distributions may work
while others do not. Vanilla gcc may work, but after Ubuntu/Suse/etc
apply their patches, this may not be the case.

-Austin

On Dec 20, 2007 8:11 PM, Peter Beutner <p.beutner at gmx.net> wrote:
> Rolf Kalbermatter schrieb:
> > Peter Beutner wrote:
> >
> >> just tested again with current git and it worked with every gcc version
> >> I had at hand here: 4.2.2, 4.1.2, 4.0.4 and 3.4.6.
> >
> > And what did you test there?
>
> That safedisc 2.x works. Wine successfully passes the statistical code analysis.
> And that also with gcc versions that reportedly caused problems on earlier wine
> versions. So other people might want to recheck as well with whatever compiler
> they are using.
>
> > As far as I understood the issue, it's not that
> > Wine won't work at all (at least for most of those gcc versions). Those gcc
> > version will only emit much more code that modern copy protection schemes
> > (Safe Disc, Secu Rom) with statistical code analysis will see as possible
> > attempts to counterfeit them and consequently prevent starting applications
> > protected by them.
>
> yes, but also changes at the source code level can change the results of that
> analysis. There were some specific changes for that between .48 and .49 that
> drastically improved the situation. Unless you were using certain "broken"
> gcc versions (broken is a bit too harsh, the main problem is after all only
> that the function prolog sequence is ordered a bit differently).
>
> Now some changes seems to have improved the situation even further, so that
> even with those little differences between different gcc versions it
> stays below the threshold where the safedisc analyzer would start complaining.
>
> > As long as you do not want to run copy protected applications under Wine
> > most of those gcc versions should just work fine.
>
> sry, for not being more specific. I thought the context was clear as this whole
> discussion was only about copy protection vs. different gcc versions.
>
> btw., because you said "most of those gcc versions", is there a gcc version that
> is known to not work with wine (beside these copy protection issues)?
>
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