Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:21:00 -0500 From: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com> To: "Heyman, Jerrold" <Jerrold.Heyman@emc.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: <rpc/rpc.h> and rpc_createerr Message-ID: <1449811260.30424.50.camel@michaeleichorn.com> In-Reply-To: <9CDA60925D09954CA4BAD0284E2DFC43024EDE@MX204CL01.corp.emc.com> References: <9CDA60925D09954CA4BAD0284E2DFC43024EDE@MX204CL01.corp.emc.com>
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On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 19:49 +0000, Heyman, Jerrold wrote: > I've just installed FreeBSD 10.2 in order to determine the > portability of my companies code. Built gcc4.6 out of the ports/lang > area, but see the same issue using /usr/bin/cc (clang 3.4.1). > > in /usr/include/rpc/clnt.h the following snippet: > > /* > * If a creation fails, the following allows the user to figure out > why. > */ > struct rpc_createerr { > enum clnt_stat cf_stat; > struct rpc_err cf_error; /* userful when cf_stat == > RPC_PMAPFAILURE */ > }; > > __BEGIN_DECLS > extern struct rpc_createerr *__rpc_createeer(void); > __END_DECLS > #define rpc_createerr (*(__rpc_createeerr())) > > Note that the #define becomes active once the file is included, and > in my source code I have multiple > > struct rpc_createerr *ce; > > declarations. Both cc and gcc cite this as an error, though for > different reasons. > > gcc complains that a '(' is found where a '{' is expected. > The cc error message is 'error: declaration of anyonymous struct must > be a definition'. > > My other ports - Linux, AIX, Solaris, Mac OSX, do not have the > #define in /usr/include/rpc/clnt.h. > The HP-UX does, but it is encapsulated within a #ifdef _REENTRANT / > #endif block. > > Is this an actual error, or is there something on FreeBSD that I need > to do that is different than the other platforms? > > Thanks in advance, > > jerry > > Jerry Heyman | > Principal Software Engineer | Software is the > difference > EMC Data Domain | between hardware and > reality > Jerrold.Heyman@emc.com / 919.597.7812 | The freebsd-questions hasn't been very good at answering these kind of questions of late, you might have better luck on a more technical list like freebsd-hackers.
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