[parisc-linux] 2.4.20-pa27 64bits smp problem!

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:09:27 +0100


Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:

|> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:58:57PM -0500, John David Anglin wrote:
|> > > Would I have to open a bug report near gcc with this one?
|> > 
|> > You mean for the errors:
|> > 
|> > joel.c:19: error: initializer element is not constant
|> > joel.c:19: error: (near initialization for `MyRWLock')
|> > joel.c:19: error: initializer element is not constant
|> > 
|> > No, fix the code.  I don't believe you will win this one.  This
|> > feature (extension) was deliberately removed from GCC.
|> 
|> I think it was an error to do so.  I do not see how
|> 
|> 	(spinlock_t) { 1 }
|> 
|> is any more or less constant than
|> 
|> 	{ 1 }

A compound literal is not a constant, but an unnamed object.

Andreas.

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