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Re: AIX 4.3.3
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- Subject: Re: AIX 4.3.3
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:38:54 +0100 (BST)
- References: <20000928190200.A3773@bit.ch.cam.ac.uk>
Hmm.. I also don't know for certain whether a return type like const
char * is ANSI or not. I had been assuming it was because it didn't
generate any warnings from gcc -ansi for me, but maybe that is not a
100% reliable guide.
I'll take some time to look at the other errors. Thanks.
> First problem is ANSI compliance; this compiler seems to think
> that large parts of gsl are not compliant; specifically it is unhappy
> with functions returning const qualified types; which are all over
> the place in the vector & matrix subdirectories.
>
> I don't know the ANSI standard well enough to know if this is allowed
> or not; bit I would note that gsl doesn't compile under "gcc -ansi"
> on linux at the moment, albeit it fails with a different error.