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0000346mercuryBugpublic2016-10-06 20:27
Reporterwangp 
Assigned Towangp 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusresolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0000346: non-ANSI functions in header files
Descriptiondir.mih references DIR, but is included into C files compiled with gcc -ansi. For some reason this elicits an error from the gcc on AIX but seemingly not elsewhere.

There might be other similar problems.
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~0000739

juliensf (administrator)

It might be worth adding the dir module to the list of files in library/Mercury.options that are compiled with --no-ansi.

OTOH, we should probably just not use -ansi at all -- IIRC, it (still) puts GCC into C90 mode (annoyingly it puts clang into C89 or GNU89 mode, which is slightly different).

~0000743

wangp (developer)

Yes, I don't understand why dir.m hasn't required --no-ansi yet.

The bigger problem is that the non-ANSI stuff leaks into the header files generated for dir.m and ends up being included into almost everything else. That stuff should be hidden away, and only appear in `local' foreign_decls, foreign_codes, and foreign_procs marked `may_not_duplicate'.

~0000744

juliensf (administrator)

I'd perfectly happy simply to not use -ansi with GCC. (I had to disable its use with clang recently anyway.)
Another problem with it is that it affects the compilation of user foreign_procs. Most of the systems we
support these days support POSIX / C99 well enough that disabling it isn't going to be a problem.
The one major system that doesn't, Windows, already requires special treatment everywhere anyway.

~0000745

juliensf (administrator)

All that said, restricting the stuff in the dir module to appear in 'local' foreign pragmas is also a worthwhile
change IMO.

~0000934

wangp (developer)

Fixed as part of commit 1fbcfe3 (for dir.m anyway)
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Date Modified Username Field Change
2014-07-11 17:41 wangp New Issue
2014-07-11 20:08 juliensf Note Added: 0000739
2014-07-14 10:26 wangp Note Added: 0000743
2014-07-14 10:31 juliensf Note Added: 0000744
2014-07-14 10:33 juliensf Note Added: 0000745
2016-10-06 20:27 wangp Assigned To => wangp
2016-10-06 20:27 wangp Status new => resolved
2016-10-06 20:27 wangp Resolution open => fixed
2016-10-06 20:27 wangp Note Added: 0000934
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