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Re: [Georg Schwarz] Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Georg Schwarz] Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:16:20 -0800
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>   From: Georg Schwarz <address@hidden>
>   Subject: Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

>   configure:20647: cc -c -g  conftest.c >&5
>   cfe: Warning 807: conftest.c, line 185: member cannot be of function
>   or incomple
>   te type.
>                struct s { int n; double d[]; };
>            -----------------------------^
>   configure:20653: $? = 0
>   configure:20668: result: yes
>
>   looks like the SGI IDO cc reports back "no problems" despite of the
>   failure to compile the code.

In what sense did the compiler fail to compile the code?
Does the resulting program not work correctly?  If so,
what goes wrong?  (We need to add a test case for it.)
If not, then I wouldn't worry about it: it's just a warning
from the compiler that you can ignore.




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