Re: error compiling regex gnulib module with pgcc compiler

[Paul Eggert]

Claudio Fontana <address@hidden> writes:

>> pgcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..     -g -c regex.c
>> PGC-F-0249-#error --  "Add case for new bitset_word
>> size" (./regex_internal.h: 186)
>> PGC/x86-64 Linux/x86-64 5.2-1: compilation aborted
>
> I do not know whether this is something that should be
> acted upon, or if the compiler in question is not
> doing the right thing.

It sounds like the compiler is buggy, and this should be acted upon.

What is the value of ULONG_MAX on that host?  Your user can find out
by compiling the following little program with "pgcc -g -E":

#include <limits.h>
"ULONG_MAX = " ULONG_MAX


> Could this be related to 64bit quantities being used
> in preprocessor constant expressions?

Yes, possibly the pgcc preprocessor mishandles 64-bit numbers.