Re: repl-vsnprintf.c:396:0: error: ISO C forbids an empty translation unit

[Hans Åberg]

> On 13 Feb 2018, at 12:24, Torbjörn Granlund  wrote:
> 
> Dennis Clarke  writes:
> 
>  As a minor annoyance it does cause gcc ( recent versions 7.x ) to fail.
>  Oddly enough ye Oracle Studio 12.6 cc running in strict c99 mode is fine
>  and happy with everything. That is a new experience for me. However the
>  performance on sparc is miserable.  We all know this and we know why.
> 
> I like Vincent's proposal; I had thought we needed to add something
> which leaves garbage in the object files.

There is a discussion here [1]: The translation unit is the input source, it 
seems, which must be non-empty, but not the resulting object file; however, a 
conforming compiler can complain about whatever.

1. https://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/222053-empty-translation-unit-valid


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Re: repl-vsnprintf.c:396:0: error: ISO C forbids an empty translation unit

[Torbjörn Granlund]

Dennis Clarke  writes:

  As a minor annoyance it does cause gcc ( recent versions 7.x ) to fail.
  Oddly enough ye Oracle Studio 12.6 cc running in strict c99 mode is fine
  and happy with everything. That is a new experience for me. However the
  performance on sparc is miserable.  We all know this and we know why.
  
I like Vincent's proposal; I had thought we needed to add something
which leaves garbage in the object files.

About sparc GMP performance, yes it's very poor except for T4-T5 where
it's acceptable.

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