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bug #29244: MSVC Compatibility broken with main.c Revision 1.237 (with Proposal for Fix)

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 17 Mar 2010 11:23:45 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Bug
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  psmith Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  4.0 Operating System:  MS Windows
Fixed Release:  3.82 Triage Status:  None
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Thu 01 Jul 2010 07:01:06 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Fixed, thanks.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Wed 31 Mar 2010 03:41:14 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Hm, define_variable_cname() looks like a macro to me. At least variable.h contians in line 185:


#define define_variable_cname(n,v,o,r) \


That given the code below from main.c resembles a macro exapansion quite closely, doesn't it?


  define_variable_cname (".FEATURES",
                         "target-specific order-only second-expansion else-if"
                         "shortest-stem undefine"
#ifndef NO_ARCHIVES
                         "archives"
#endif
#ifdef MAKE_JOBSERVER
                         "jobserver"
#endif
#ifdef MAKE_SYMLINKS
                         "check-symlink"
#endif
                         , o_default, 0);


Oliver Schmidt - oschmidt(at)sap.com

Anonymous
Sun 28 Mar 2010 12:54:28 PM UTC, comment #2: 

This is a real bug and I will fix it.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Group administrator
Sun 28 Mar 2010 09:00:25 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Paul, can you comment on this?  The ChangeLog does not mention this change to main.c, so there's no reason given to this change that I could use for reasoning about this change.

By the way, the issue with MSVC is probably related to string concatenation inside conditional compilation, not as written (there are no macro expansions anywhere in sight, AFAICS).

Eli Zaretskii <eliz>
Group Member
Wed 17 Mar 2010 11:23:45 AM UTC, original submission:  

The revision 1.237 of main.c submitted in November 2009 with the comment "Add VMS enhancements from Hartmut Becker." breaks the compatibility with MSVC. The reason is that the MSVC preprocessor doesn't support conditional compilation inside a macro expansion.

To my understanding the change in question is "only" a general optimization not related to VMS so my proposal is to just revert main.c to revision 1.236.

Oliver Schmidt - oschmidt(at)sap.com

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2010-07-28 psmith Fixed Release4.0 3.82
    2010-07-01 psmith StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone psmith
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Fixed ReleaseNone 4.0

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