[Fwd: [ddd-users] egcs-2.93.22]

[Edward C Morgan <ecmorgan at lucent dot com>]

Could you tell me what changed for -fexternal-templates from egcs-1.1.2 to egcs 2.93.22.
Andreas Zeller wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Edward C Morgan <ecmorgan@lucent.com> writes:
>
> > I've downloaded and installed egcs compiler (egcs-2.93.22) dated
> > 19990517 for the sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 and started to make ddd
> > version 3.1.5.  Seems like they aren't supporting the
> > -fexternal-templates option like before in egcs 1.1.2 (NOTE: ddd
> > compiles fine with egcs 1.1.2):
> >
> >       Here's what it does during compilation (w/o Xlib.h warnings):
> >       ==> Making all in ./ddd...
> >       [...]
> >       c++  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -W -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -fexternal-templates -felide-constructors -fconserve-space -trigraphs -c -I. -I. -I./.. -I/opt/GBxpm/include -I/usr/dt/include  -I/usr/openwin/include -o ddd.o ddd.C
> >       cc1plus: warning: -fexternal-templates is deprecated.
> >       cc1plus: warning: Please see the documentation for details.
>
> This warning can be ignored; the day egcs no longer supports
> `-fexternal-templates', this will be noted by DDD's `configure'
> script.  However, I'd like to know what the new EGCS documentation
> says about this.  Can you send me the relevant files?
>
> >       In file included from /usr/openwin/include/X11/Intrinsic.h:30,
> >                        from ddd.h:39,
> >                        from ddd.C:137:
> >       ddd.C:755: initialization to `void *' from `const char *' discards qualifiers
> >       [...]
>
> The enclosed patch should fix this problem.  Please compile with
> `make -k' and let me know about further problems you find.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
>
>
> --
> Andreas Zeller     Universitaet Passau, Germany
>                   http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/st/staff/zeller/

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