From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:36:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] Teach Solaris that _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 really menas XPG6
Message-ID: <4F909897-DD86-4C35-B18F-BE1CFBF06FAE@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <UBftUjN2Jk2tj73et7i3WvuSUhtOiNjPVjmux6IKeXOo0Zs8KHgrOA@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>


On Jun 11, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Brandon Casey wrote:
> Ok, great.  Looks like Sun fixed the flaw that was present in the 5.8
> compiler, and no other changes need to be made to git.  To be  
> absolutely
> sure, and if you have a moment, can you try to compile the code  
> snippet at
> the end of this email?
>
> If you name the saved the code "test.c", then just compile with
>
>   /opt/SUNWspro/bin/c99 -c test.c
>
> The Sun C 5.8 compiler complains like this for me:
>
>   "test.c", line 12: identifier redeclared: test_func
>           current : function(pointer to const struct a_struct {int  
> b, array[-1] of pointer to char c}) returning pointer to void
>           previous: function(pointer to const struct a_struct {int  
> b, array[-1] of pointer to char c}) returning pointer to void :  
> "test.c", line 4
>   c99: acomp failed for test.c
>
> If the 5.9 compiler successfully compiles it, then this new version  
> of Sun's
> compiler correctly handles c99 flex arrays.

It compiles without errors.

tom