Re: CVS HEAD compile failure

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>I've been able to reproduce this on one of my machines, and it's nasty.
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>>In that case I'm confused about why this code compiles on my machine:
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>What compiler are you using?  I'm using gcc 2.95.3 (on the machine that
>shows the failure), and I think Bruce is also using something less than
>the latest.  It's possible that more recent gcc's are able to figure out
>that the reference to free_func should be interpreted as a parameter
>name and not a typedef.
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>In fact, trying your test program fails here:
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>$ gcc -Wall zzz.c
>zzz.c:8: parse error before `free_func'
>zzz.c:8: parse error before `)'
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>so "compiler difference" definitely seems to be the answer.
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gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

cheers

andrew