Re: [Chicken-users] gcc 3.4.0

[Felix Winkelmann]

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> Hi.
>
> I just tried to build chicken 1.43 (and cvs) with gcc 3.4.0.
> I get many errors because it seems to be that gcc now requires
> declaration and definition of a function to match in all attributes,
> esp. in C_regparm, C_noret etc:
>
>
> > make
>
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc340 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. 
> -DC_STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD=1 
> -DC_INSTALL_LIB_HOME='"/programs/free/chicken-1.43b/lib/chicken"' 
> -DC_USE_C_DEFAULTS -DC_NO_PIC_NO_DLL   -DC_BUILDING_LIBCHICKEN  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer 
> -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-uninitialized -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H -fstrict-aliasing -c -o 
> libchicken_la-runtime.lo `test -f 'runtime.c' || echo './'`runtime.c
> mkdir .libs
>  gcc340 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DC_STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD=1 
> -DC_INSTALL_LIB_HOME=\"/programs/free/chicken-1.43b/lib/chicken\" 
> -DC_USE_C_DEFAULTS -DC_NO_PIC_NO_DLL -DC_BUILDING_LIBCHICKEN -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer 
> -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-uninitialized -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H -fstrict-aliasing -c runtime.c  
> -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libchicken_la-runtime.o
> runtime.c:618: error: conflicting types for 'C_new_symbol_table'
> chicken.h:1162: error: previous declaration of 'C_new_symbol_table' was here

Groan!

So adding a C_regparm to the definition of runtime.c would be needed,
right? Ok, as long as this is downward compatible, I'll add this.

Thanks for pointing that out.


cheers,
felix