public inbox for gcc-prs@sourceware.org help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: ted@arraycomm.com To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org Cc: ted@arraycomm.com Subject: preprocessor/4353: gcc 2.96, 3.0 break -E -C define line comment processing Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:26:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20010918232152.28643.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com> (raw) >Number: 4353 >Category: preprocessor >Synopsis: gcc 2.96, 3.0 break -E -C define line comment processing >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: unassigned >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: net >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 18 16:26:00 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ted Merrill, ArrayComm, Inc. >Release: gcc-2.96, gcc-3.0 >Organization: >Environment: several cross compilation targets incl. solaris, arm, etc. >Description: We compile a large amount of C code with both the -C and -E options (because we do further processing before final compilation). Given the following file: #define foo 1 //comment here int bar(void) { return foo; } gcc-3.0 with -C -E produces the following output: # 2 "test1.c" int bar(void) { return 1 //comment here; } This of course won't compile! gcc-2.96 gives me the same result, but gcc-2.95 (and earlier) gives: # 1 "test1.c" //comment here int bar(void) { return 1 ; } ... which works nicely. This change breaks a LOT of our code. I did come up with a hack on the source code to work around it but my hack suppresses comments entirely, and of course it would be nice to take care of this in the main tree! It appears from comments in the source code that this change was deliberate but i'm not sure that the author considered the effect on this case! A related problem is seen in the following file: #define foo 0 //comment #if foo yyy #endif gcc 2.96 and 3.0 abort with the diagnostic: test2.c:2:5: "//comment" is not valid in #if expressions whereas gcc 2.95 was quite happy, producing: # 1 "test2.c" //comment >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
next reply other threads:[~2001-09-18 16:26 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2001-09-18 16:26 ted [this message] 2001-10-08 13:08 neil
Reply instructions: You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email using any one of the following methods: * Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client, and reply-to-all from there: mbox Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style * Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to switches of git-send-email(1): git send-email \ --in-reply-to=20010918232152.28643.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com \ --to=ted@arraycomm.com \ --cc=gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org \ /path/to/YOUR_REPLY https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html * If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header via mailto: links, try the mailto: linkBe sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox; as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).