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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:38:38 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd inetd.c
Message-ID:  <20020622202821.P7645-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020621195650.A29348@FreeBSD.ORG>

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On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Juli Mallett wrote:

> * Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> escriur=E9res
> > Bruce Evans wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Juli Mallett wrote:
> > > >   Use __typeof__ instead of typeof.
> > >
> > > Both of these are gcc features.  I prefer typeof since it doesn't giv=
e
> > > undefined behaviour for non-gcc compilers.
> >
> > As far as I recall, we still have a long-term project goal of making
> > sources that don't depend on gcc to compile, so I'd agree with Bruce
> > that this is a bad change.
>
> I seem to recall using at least one compiler that knew __typeof__ but not
> typeof, not to mention that GCC seems to be ignorant that typeof() is a
> builtin, but not __typeof__(), and therefore will emit bogus warnings.

I think gcc emits non-bogus warnings about typeof() because you asked it to
by setting WARNS to >=3D 5 to make gcc more standard.  typeof() is just a
function call in Standard C, so typeof(a) cannot possibly be part of a
declaration like it needs to be in the SWAP() macro.  Portable code would
use __typeof__() inside a __GNUC__ ifdef for the gcc case and something
else for the non-gcc case, or just something else in all cases.

Bruce


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