Re: amd64 build failure: y.tab.c:3501: error: uninitialized const 'yyvalzero'

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Building current from a few hours ago fails with:
> 
...
> mv y_tab.c pic.cpp
> c++ -I. -I/archive/cvs/src/gnu/dist/groff/src/preproc/pic  
> -I/usr/obj/src.amd64/tools/groff/build/src/include 
> -I/archive/cvs/src/tools/groff/../../gnu/dist/groff/src/include 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O -I/usr/obj/src.amd64/tools/compat 
> -I/usr/obj/src.amd64/tools/compat/include  
> -I/archive/cvs/src/tools/groff/../compat -DHAVE_NBTOOL_CONFIG_H=1  
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c  pic.cpp
> y.tab.c:3501: error: uninitialized const 'yyvalzero'

I'd blame either:
1) groff for putting a C file through g++
2) C++ for using 'const' (and static) to mean different things from C
3) xtos

Possibly 'static const struct foo yyvalzero' will keep it happy.

        David

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