From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 10:52:23 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705271149450.4648@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46592B92.9060403@xs4all.nl>

Hi,

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
> 
> > I recently compiled tcl and tk from scratch on MinGW. (No cross-compile.) 
> > Worked out of the box:
> > 
> > 	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8.4.14-src.tar.gz
> > 	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tk8.4.14-src.tar.gz
> >       
> 
> GCC barfs on:
> 
>       ((Tcl_Obj **) objv) += (async + 3);

Ah yes, I was using MinGW's own GCC, which is GCC 3.something.

It is a new "feature" of GCC 4.x to disallow constructs like these. 
(Probably because GCC people think that other people are not intelligent 
enough to understand such constructs, and therefore prohibit their use.)

Ciao,
Dscho