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syntax error in memory.c when building R-devel on AIX

3 messages · Liaw, Andy, Brian Ripley, Luke Tierney

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OK, this is really a new one for me.  Just thought I'd try building R-devel
(2005-03-15) on our AIX power machines and see if there are any problems.  I
used the settings in the Appendix B of R-admin, using the set of variables
that Tim Hoar used (i.e., trying to build 64-bit R using native compilers).
configure ran fine, but `gmake' gave me a syntax error when compiling
src/main/memory.c.  The offending line seems to be:

    Rboolean success = FALSE;

Can anyone provide pointers?  

(Just to make sure, I tried building it on our SLES9-x86_64 box, and that
passes make check.)

TIA!
Andy
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That statement was added yesterday (not by me) and needed moving up a 
line. Which version do you have?  The current one has

 	    Rboolean success = FALSE;
 	    s = NULL; /* initialize to suppress warning */

and passes all my tests.  The previous one had those two lines reversed 
and worked on gcc (with a warning) but failed on Solaris' cc (and was not 
legal ISO C90).
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:

            

  
    
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

            
That was me--sorry.  gcc -Wall does not warn -- I've added -pedantic
to my .Rconf; that does warn.

luke