Re: [Devel] [patch] make freetype1 compile with gcc-3.3

[Antoine Leca]

Salut David,

David Turner écrivit:
> Hi Antoine,

Tiens, c'est devenu "automatique"!

> Antoine Leca wrote:
>
> > Also why has it been commited in the first time... I assume this
> > is because of some stupid compiler :-(.
> > David, did you remember writing such a thing?
> I don't remember this, but I wouldn't be surprised if I did authored
> these lines though. And yes, that probably comes from some odl and
> rusty stupid compiler so we can change this.

Well, in fact after thinking more than 1 minute, I believe an earlier
version did have direct access to some variable, whose name was
semi-automatically generated. Such as

> > #define FOOTPRINT( field )  Save_Memory( &memory_footprint.##field )

was once

   #define FOOTPRINT( field )  Save_Memory( & foobar_##field )

Then, you introduced the memory_footprint structured var, and did not
remove the (then useless) ##. And as the compilers of the time (and
including gcc 3.2, as it seems) did not complain, this stays!
Seems more logical, but I was not there to look if it is true.


Antoine