C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to build svn 1.6.0 (and previously 1.5.6, which had the same
>> problems) on one-and-a-half* machines that lack a c99 compiler. This
>> causes problems because svn uses a c99 convention of initializing
>> structs with "non-static" data.
>>
>> The attached patch is needed for compilation to succeed on these
>> platforms. Generally speaking, these problems are:
>> - struct initialization with "non-const" data
>> - comma after last item in an enum
>> - initialize function pointers to NULL (use '0' instead)
>>
>
> Now, you do realize that we only aspire to C89/ANSI-C, right? This is
> documented in our www/hacking.html file. So, some of what you recommend is
> fine because it satisfies both C89 and C99. But some of it, methinks, won't
> pan out well for C89 compilers, namely stuff like this:
>
>
>> diff -ru subversion-1.6.0/subversion/tests/libsvn_client/client-test.c subversion-1.6.0-patched/subversion/tests/libsvn_client/client-test.c
>> --- subversion-1.6.0/subversion/tests/libsvn_client/client-test.c 2008-07-30 08:05:17.000000000 -0700
>> +++ subversion-1.6.0-patched/subversion/tests/libsvn_client/client-test.c 2009-03-25 14:57:04.536775000 -0700
>> @@ -146,7 +146,10 @@
>> apr_array_header_t *targets;
>> apr_getopt_t *os;
>> const int argc = 2;
>> - const char *argv[] = { "opt-test", input, NULL };
>> + const char *argv[3];
>> + argv[0] = "opt-test";
>> + argv[1] = input;
>> + argv[2] = NULL;
>> apr_status_t apr_err;
>> svn_error_t *err;
>>
>
> Cases like this will (I'm guessing) cause problems because they declare
> stack variables after other assignments have been made. We need to move
> those "argv[N] =" lines to after all the variable declarations. Wanna take
> another cut at the patch?
>
Also ... you actually *can* init almost all of argv here. :)
const char *argv[] = { "opt-test", NULL, NULL };
and later:
argv[1] = input;
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Received on 2009-03-26 17:45:00 CET