Re: tar 1.13.22 and AIX 4.3.2

[Albert Chin-A-Young]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:55:17PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > From: Albert Chin-A-Young <address@hidden>
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
> > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:06:19 -0500
> > 
> > With the IBM C compiler xlc:
> > 
> > gmake[2]: Entering directory `/opt/build/tar-1.13.22/lib'
> > xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl    -O2 -qmaxmem=-1
> > -qarch=com -c `test -f strtoumax.c || echo './'`strtoumax.c
> > "strtoimax.c", line 87.43: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier ptr.
> > 
> > This looks just fine to me. Maybe a bug in the IBM C compiler?
> 
> Most likely.  Perhaps it is parsing `sizeof function (args)' incorrectly.
> But rather than try to debug this, how about trying the following
> patch to sidestep the issue?  It also fixes a minor gotcha with signed
> versus unsigned configuration.

I posted to comp.std.c so we'll see.

> 2001-09-06  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * lib/strtoimax.c (HAVE_LONG_LONG):
>       Redefine to HAVE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG if unsigned.
>       (strtoimax): Use sizeof (long), not sizeof strtol (ptr,
>       endptr, base), to work around bug in IBM C compiler.

This change works with *all* the compilers here and AIX! Thanks!

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albert chin (address@hidden)