From: Brandon Casey Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:42:45 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] Teach Solaris that _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 really menas XPG6 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4F909897-DD86-4C35-B18F-BE1CFBF06FAE@dbservice.com> Tomas Carnecky wrote: > > 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. Great. Thanks. -brandon