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- From: d1h1883@sc.tamu.edu (Dave Hess)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs
- Subject: Re: gcc preprocessor and -traditional problem
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 17:46:51 GMT
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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- In article <1it2rtINNk7i@tamsun.tamu.edu> d1h1883@sc.tamu.edu (Dave Hess)
- writes:
- >
- > I was trying to put together a package (detex 2.4) that needed to be
- compiled
- > with -traditional and gcc puked on some NeXT include files. gcc apparently
- > won't interpret the funky macros that NeXT uses in some of their #include
- > statements (for the architecture independent stuff) if the -traditional
- > switch is on.
- >
-
- Apparently this is a bug and is known. I was forwarded the following.
-
- > From: Kate Smith <Kate_Smith@NeXT.COM>
- > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:43:55 -0800
- > To: <serge@Princeton.EDU>
- > Subject: [37670] @!compiler problems - something about the comments in
- math.h
- >
- > Serge,
- > We have a bug with our machine dependant include files when using the
- -traditional flag. We have an include file that is used to build the name of
- the machine dependant include file that really needs to be included. This
- file uses an ansi directive that is invalid in traditional mode.
- >
- > So in order for you to get the math.h file included, you need to specify
- the fullpath in your program, or modify math.h to include the proper file.
- >
- > So your program would look like this:
- > #include </NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/m68k/math.h>
- >
- > main()
- > {
- > double x;
- > x=cos(1.2);
- > printf("%f\n",x);
- > }
- >
- > Or you could change math.h to include
- /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/m68k/math.h instead of doing the machine
- dependant stuff.
- >
- > Sorry for the inconvenience.
- >
- > Kate
-
- It looks like the workaround is to fully qualify pathnames. The problem
- is that this won't work on include files that include others. i.e.
- <sys/param.h>. I would have to expand by hand all of macros. Ugh.
-
- Thanks to Serge J. Goldstein for the info.
-
- Dave
-
- --
- David K. Hess
- Graduate Assistant David-Hess@tamu.edu
- Supercomputer Center Texas A&M University
-