[ofw] RE: [ofa-general] porting IB management code to Windows

Sean Hefty sean.hefty at intel.com
Thu Dec 11 12:50:46 PST 2008


>Just to chime in here with some past experience.. Is there any way it
>would be acceptable to use gcc (or even the Intel compiler) as the
>mandatory Windows C compiler?  That would save everyone alot of
>ongoing hassle. MS does not maintain the C compiler portion of VC++
>and it is very old standards wise, half your changes in this patch are
>due to it not supporting C99.

WinOF builds using the WDK build environment.  I personally have no issue with
using a different compiler, but the WWG would need to decide on that sort of
change.

- Sean




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