Kurt Wall writes:
> Also sprach Richard Gooch:
> > Hi, all. I've just tried compiling some code on a RedHat 6.0 system,
> > and ran across a problem. I've written some test code that
> > demonstrates the problem:
> >
> > % cat egcs-example.c
> > #include <ctype.h>
> >
> > int func (char *array)
> > {
> > return tolower (array[0]);
> > }
> > % cc -c -Wall -pedantic-errors -O2 egcs-example.c
> > egcs-example.c: In function `func':
> > egcs-example.c:5: ANSI C forbids braced-groups within expressions
> > % gcc -v
> > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
> > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
>
> It has to do with some interaction between -O2 optimization and tolower(),
> it appears. Behold, for the above code:
> $ gcc -c -Wall -pedantic-errors mtest.c
> $ gcc -c -Wall -pedantic-errors -O2 mtest.c
> mtest.c: In function `func':
> mtest.c:5: ANSI C forbids braced-groups within expressions
>
> In short, if you drop the -O2 optimization, it compiles. At least it
> did on my system.
Yes, I know. But that really isn't a solution. I don't want to compile
without optimisation. What I want is the bug in ecgs to be fixed.
Regards,
Richard....
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