c/10225: Unnamed structs aren't handled correctly in 3.3

Philipp Thomas pthomas@suse.de
Wed Mar 26 17:46:00 GMT 2003


The following reply was made to PR c/10225; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de>
To: Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org,
	gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, aj@suse.de
Subject: Re: c/10225: Unnamed structs aren't handled correctly in 3.3
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:33:47 +0100

 * Steven Bosscher (s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl) [20030326 18:25]:
 
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=10225
 > 
 > Hmm...  Didn't work with 2.95.3 apparently, so the
 > kernel had better not rely on this "feature".
 
 The code takes into account that gcc 2.95.3 doesn't support this. But seeing
 the extra macro stuff that generates the correct member names depending on
 the compiler used (e.g. you have to use ie->_IIF(iff,length) makes me really
 wonder why they even use the stuff .....
 
 Philipp
 
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 Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de>
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