Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:03:21 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Jason Tishler cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin gcc "initializer element is not constant" problem In-Reply-To: <20030102163008.GF1524@tishler.net> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary_(ID_SaDdXNl29QRKLrUMrAEssQ)" Content-ID: --Boundary_(ID_SaDdXNl29QRKLrUMrAEssQ) Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Disposition: INLINE On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jason Tishler wrote: > The attached code snippet, j2.c, demonstrates a Cygwin specific > compilation problem that affects many Python shared extension modules: > > $ gcc -c j2.c > j2.c:17: initializer element is not constant > j2.c:17: (near initialization for `f.get') > > It appears that Cygwin gcc considers function pointers marked > "__declspec(dllimport)" unacceptable to use as initializer constants. > > My standard workaround is to submit a patch that is the equivalent of > compiling this snippet with -DWORKAROUND: > > $ gcc -DWORKAROUND -c j2.c > > Unfortunately, this style of patch is no longer acceptable: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-December/031534.html > > Can anyone suggest a better (hopefully less intrusive) workaround? > > Thanks, > Jason Jason, I believe the complaint was not about the intrusiveness (i.e. patch size) of the workaround, but about the readability of the resulting code. How about doing exactly what the message suggests (see attached)? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune --Boundary_(ID_SaDdXNl29QRKLrUMrAEssQ) Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name="j2-modified.c" Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-ID: Content-Description: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="j2-modified.c" I2lmbmRlZiBXT1JLQVJPVU5EDQojICBkZWZpbmUgSU5JVElBTCh2KSAodikN CiMgIGRlZmluZSBBU1NJR04oZix2KQ0KI2Vsc2UNCiMgIGRlZmluZSBJTklU SUFMKHYpICgwKQ0KIyAgZGVmaW5lIEFTU0lHTihmLHYpIGRveyBmID0gdjsg fXdoaWxlKDApDQojZW5kaWYNCg0KdHlwZWRlZiB2b2lkICgqZnVuY3Rpb24p KCk7DQoNCnN0cnVjdCBmb28NCnsNCiAgICAgICAgZnVuY3Rpb24gZ2V0Ow0K fTsNCg0KX19kZWNsc3BlYyhkbGxpbXBvcnQpIHZvaWQgZjEoKTsNCg0Kc3Ry dWN0IGZvbyBmID0NCnsNCiAgICAgICAgSU5JVElBTChmMSkNCn07DQoNCnZv aWQNCmluaXQoKQ0Kew0KICAgICAgICBBU1NJR04oZi5nZXQsIGYxKTsNCn0N Cg0K --Boundary_(ID_SaDdXNl29QRKLrUMrAEssQ) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ --Boundary_(ID_SaDdXNl29QRKLrUMrAEssQ)--