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[Bug regex/1220] New: regex uses old-style definitions that cause g++ to fail
- From: "eggert at gnu dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 20 Aug 2005 07:26:06 -0000
- Subject: [Bug regex/1220] New: regex uses old-style definitions that cause g++ to fail
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com
regex uses old (K&R) style function definitions, which causes
problems when it is compiled using g++ outside of glibc. For example:
g++ -W -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wpointer-arith -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type
-Wno-sign-compare -Wno-invalid-offsetof -g -DUNICODE -I. -I. -I..
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c regex.c
In file included from regex.c:85:
regex_internal.c:46: error: `reg_errcode_t re_string_allocate' redeclared as
different kind of symbol
regex_internal.h:383: error: previous declaration of `reg_errcode_t
re_string_allocate(re_string_t*, const char*, int, int, char*, int, const
re_dfa_t*)'
For more details about the g++ problem, please see Sam Steingold's bug report
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2005-08/msg00096.html>.
These days there's no longer any reason for regex to use K&R function
definition syntax, so I'm installing the attached patch into gnulib. Can you
please propagate this into glibc? Thanks.
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Summary: regex uses old-style definitions that cause g++ to fail
Product: glibc
Version: 2.3.5
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: regex
AssignedTo: gotom at debian dot or dot jp
ReportedBy: eggert at gnu dot org
CC: glibc-bugs-regex at sources dot redhat dot com,glibc-
bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1220
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