[PATCH] configure: Check for the -Wno-force-align-arg-pointer compiler switch.

Charles Davis cdavis at mymail.mines.edu
Tue Feb 16 18:46:01 CST 2010


Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Charles Davis <cdavis at mymail.mines.edu> writes:
> 
>> An incomplete list of projects that use force_align_arg_pointer:
>> - liboil
>> - ffmpeg
>> - x264
>> - Gallium3D
>> - KDE
>>
>> Just do a Google search for 'force_align_arg_pointer' and you'll see a
>> whole bunch of pages about this!
>>
>> Now are you convinced this is a good idea?
> 
> No, I still don't see the point of warning about a completely harmless
> usage. It's clearly convenient to be able to define __stdcall the way we
> do in Wine, and I expect other projects may want to it that way too.
> OTOH the likelihood that someone would deliberately use it on a function
> pointer expecting something to happen seems very low to me, and not
> worth a warning, much less a command-line option.
You win.

I reverted the change that led to the warning. You can safely discard my
patch now.

Chip




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