Re: Issue with compiling git 1.8.4 under uclibc with gcc 4.6.3

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Aug 26, 2013, 21:07 UTC
Message-ID: <87fvtwi2jd.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20130826203154.GA21357@blizzard>

Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de> writes:

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> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:29:12PM -0600, Lance wrote:
>> [...]
>> >>     CC config.o
>> >>config.c: In function 'get_next_char':
>> >>config.c:220:14: error: expected identifier before '(' token
>> >>config.c:220:14: error: expected statement before ')' token
>> >>config.c:220:14: error: expected statement before ')' token
>> >>config.c:224:11: error: expected identifier before '(' token
>> >Does changing line 220 of config.c to
>> >
>> >     int c = (cf->fgetc)(cf);
>> >
>> >fix it?
>> I also had to change line 224 to the following
>> 
>>                 c = (cf->fgetc)(cf);
>> 
>> Once both places were changes, it compiled successfully.
>
> Sounds like a parser bug to me.

No, it isn't. fgetc may be a function-like macro that expands to an arbitrary expression (same for ungetc or ftell, or any other indentifier that matches a C library function, for that matter).

Andreas.

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