From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Clobbering
Date: 20 Oct 1997 06:08:40 GMT
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"Anthony.Appleyard" (MCLSSAA2 AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk) writes:
>   macros.cc:395: warning: variable `class val * this' might be clobbered by
> `longjmp' or `vfork'
> 
>   Confusingly, this line is in a function `void buffer::translate()', and I
> would have thought that the current `this*' would be a `class buffer*' not a
> `class val*'! The offending line is:-
>     if(T1.n>0) namemacro(val(1,0),T1,val(Record)); *K=*Record;}
>   where val() is a constructor for a `class val' that I declared.

If the val constructor you used is inlined, then it will report a problem
with val *this in that constructor on some line that calls it, such as the
one above.
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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh