Portability and bug fixes for Fiasco

[Michael Hohmuth]

Fiasco now also compiles with egcs-1.0 and egcs-1.1.  (Egcs-1.1 will
whine a bit that it ignores many "volatile"s for asm() statements, but
this is not a serious problem; this will be fixed with the next OSKit
update.)

I've created a patch that contains Kevin Moule's numerous ANSI C++
fixes (many thanks!), some compatibility code for the various compiler
versions, a workaround for a compiler bug (egcs doesn't like template
functions containing inline assembler statements), and a bug fix for
the space_registry_t constructor.  This patch will be uploaded to
ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de (once the admins have created some free space on
the ftp partition :-), and because it's short, I've also attached it
to this message.

Please note that the installation instructions on the web site
contained an error: The "-sigma0" option was missing in Fiasco's
command line in the GRUB config file.  Thanks to Andrew Thomas for
stepping into this trap!

Michael
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hohmuth at innocent.com, hohmuth at inf.tu-dresden.de
http://home.pages.de/~hohmuth/

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