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Friday June 11, 2004
07:26 AM
glibc hell
Recently, in the glibc headers, some inline functions appeared. For example,
on my system, sys/sysmacros.h contains the following stuff: (glibc 2.3.3)
__extension__ extern __inline unsigned int
gnu_dev_major (unsigned long long int __dev) __THROW
{
return ((__dev >> 8) & 0xfff) | ((unsigned int) (__dev >> 32) & ~0xfff);
}
# define major(dev) gnu_dev_major (dev)
Of course, h2ph doesn't grok this at all. And things breaks. That's why I added a ugly hack to h2ph to try to parse the __inline functions that mostly look like C macros (change #22925 to bleadperl.) The old caveat applies more than ever : It's only intended as a rough tool. You may need to dicker with the files produced. (from the h2ph(1) manpage, section BUGS.)
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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