Wed Jun 07 11:05:07 2017: Request 121464 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by ppisar
Queue: Wx
Subject: Compile fails with "error: expected identifier before string
constant" from /CORE/unicode_constants.h
Broken in: (no value)
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: [email protected]
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121464 >
Dne St 07.čen.2017 10:46:19, ppisar napsal(a):
> Dne Ne 30.dub.2017 05:37:28, KENTNL napsal(a):
> > In file included from
> > /home/kent/perl5/perlbrew/perls/5.25.12-nossp-sip13-nopmc-
> > nodot/lib/5.25.12/x86_64-linux/CORE/utf8.h:30:0,
> > from
> > /home/kent/perl5/perlbrew/perls/5.25.12-nossp-sip13-nopmc-
> > nodot/lib/5.25.12/x86_64-linux/CORE/regexp.h:21,
> > from
> > /home/kent/perl5/perlbrew/perls/5.25.12-nossp-sip13-nopmc-
> > nodot/lib/5.25.12/x86_64-linux/CORE/perl.h:3914,
> > from ../../cpp/wxapi.h:57,
> > from RichText.c:23:
> > /home/kent/perl5/perlbrew/perls/5.25.12-nossp-sip13-nopmc-
> > nodot/lib/5.25.12/x86_64-linux/CORE/unicode_constants.h:72:22:
> > error: expected identifier before string constant
> > # define BOM_UTF8 "\xEF\xBB\xBF" /* U+FEFF */
> > ^
> > /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/convauto.h:54:9: note: in expansion of macro
> > ‘BOM_UTF8’
> > BOM_UTF8
> > ^
>
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/convauto.h Wx header file defines BOM_UTF8 enum
> value:
>
> class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxConvAuto : public wxMBConv
> {
> private:
> // all currently recognized BOM values
> enum BOMType
> {
> BOM_None,
> BOM_UTF32BE,
> BOM_UTF32LE,
> BOM_UTF16BE,
> BOM_UTF16LE,
> BOM_UTF8
> };
> }
>
> While Perl's CORE/unicode_constants.h defines a same-named macro:
>
> # define BOM_UTF8 "\xEF\xBB\xBF" /* U+FEFF */
>
> String literals cannot be enum values.
Because BOM_UTF8 belongs to public Perl API and it's private to Wx, I think Wx
should rename it.
