Cast ambiguity compilation error

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Jan-2009, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| I've gotten Mercurial working on my FC3 machine (hoorah!).  Python path 
problem...
| 
| Compiling the latest source on this older system has uncovered one small 
syntax problem, I believe.  Or I have some outdated compiler, std library 
headers, or something.
| 
| The issue is the abiguity of '!' operator overloaded in oct-inttypes.h.  An 
example string of errors is below.  There are only a few spots where these 
errors are occuring.  (Note that the errors are happening when building 
liboctave, not the src.)  I fixed one instance with a kludge old-style case:
| 
| 
| diff -Pur octave/liboctave/intNDArray.cc octave-mod/liboctave/intNDArray.cc
| --- octave/liboctave/intNDArray.cc    2009-01-18 13:45:08.000000000 -0600
| +++ octave-mod/liboctave/intNDArray.cc        2009-01-18 13:53:19.000000000 
-0600
| @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
|      {
|        T val = this->elem (i);
|  
| -      if (((double)val) != 0.0 && ((double)val) != 1.0)
| +      if (val != 0.0 && val != 1.0)
|       return true;
|      }

Your diff seems to be reversed.

Would it work to use

  if (val != 0 && val != 1)

instead?

jwe