[Openmcl-devel] RTFM considered harmful :)

[Hamilton Link]

Yeah, the ffigen in the testing directory that Gary directed me to  
(before I promptly downloaded the wrong one) fixed the problem.   
Possibly the links to ffigen in the docs should be updated (section  
9.7.1) to point to the right one.
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On Sep 6, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Gary Byers wrote:

> When I run darwin-headers/libc/C/populate.sh on a 10.3.9, I get a  
> single
> warning (the scalb() function in /usr/include/math.h has a prototype  
> that
> conflicts with a GCC 4.0 compiler intrinsic.)  I'm using the FFIGEN  
> package
> from
>
> <ftp://clozure.com/pub/testing/ffigen-bin-darwinppc-gcc-4.0.0-2005-05 
> -17-11-45-56.tar.gz>
>
>
> The older (MUCH older) version of FFIGEN that's on the server is based
> on GCC 2.95, and it expects that the installed "gcc" driver is GCC
> 2.95's (and "gcc -E" invokes gcc 2.95's preprocessor).  If the
> installed "gcc" driver belongs to GCC 3.x or later (likely, over the
> last few years), I believe that that can lead to errors like those
> that you're getting.  (I'm actually surprised that it would work at
> all.)  There's a footnote in section 9.7 of the documentation that
> explains this issue; as of Tiger (or XCode 2.x), I don't believe that
> the suggested workaround would work.
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Hamilton Link wrote:
>
>> OK, for a very very simple file with just #defines in it, h-to-ffi.sh  
>> is working.
>>
>> With anything that includes stdio or basically anything of substance,  
>> I get a mountain of:
>>
>> /usr/include/ppc/endian.h:0: warning: unrecognized text at end of  
>> #line
>> /usr/include/ppc/endian.h:22: warning: unrecognized text at end of  
>> #line
>> /usr/include/ppc/endian.h:56: warning: unrecognized text at end of  
>> #line
>>
>> for file after file after file, and line after line after line.
>>
>> I couldn't get past this for gandalf, and as it turns out when I run  
>> darwin-headers/libc/C/populate.sh I get the same thing.
>>
>> This is a preprocessor warning of some sort that means... what?  That  
>> I'm using the wrong h-to-ffi.sh?  Or the wrong compiler? I googled  
>> this and saw other people with basically the same problem, but those  
>> guys were mostly trying to recompile linux and gcc and things like  
>> that, generally with other incompatible versions of things.
>>
>> I have the gandalf bundle built, no problemo, and can open it using  
>> UFFI, but I don't have reader macros working yet because of this.   
>> Anyone with clever ideas out there?  I'm out in deep water with this  
>> one, I'm afraid.
>>
>> thanks,
>> hamilton
>>
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