Re: GCCism's?

Max Bowsher wrote:
> NormW wrote:
>
>> Greetings All,
>> Recent 'builds' of SVN 1.2-rc1 for NetWare fail with the following
>> 'errors'. The first one (fs_fs.c) has been 'updated' in trunk, but I
>> note the attached log reference to a GCCism (Revision 13954), which I
>> take to understand in a negative light.
>> As the list below shows, there are further instances of that construct
>> still extant in the files noted, if they also need to be attended.
>
>
> Ah, thanks!
>
> For reference, we aim to be compilable on any compiler supporting plain
> C89 - though an awful lot of people do use GCC, so GCCisms occasionally
> creep in.
> Fixing now.

FWIW, I added the GCC "-ansi" option to the ESP Ghostscript configure
script in our latest fork of GPL Ghostscript 8.15 to catch this sort
of thing; these three lines are all that are needed:

     if test -n "$GCC"; then
         CFLAGS="-ansi $CFLAGS"
     fi

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Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com
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