Re: [TCLCORE] Error in compiling tcl8.6 on IRIX

[Rene Z. <r.z...@fr...>]

Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2012, 22:23:35 schrieben Sie:
> Am 26.09.2012 um 22:09 schrieb Rene Zaumseil <r.z...@fr...>:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I tried today to compile tcl8.6 on the following machine:
> > 
> > % uname -a
> > IRIX64 <hostname> 6.5 04101931 IP35
> > % gcc --version
> > 3.0.4
> > 
> > The compiler could not use the TCL_FORMAT_PRINTF(a,b) macro in
> > tclDecls.h.
> > 
> > The problem is in generic/tcl.h line 15:
> > 
> > #if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ > 2)
> > #   define TCL_FORMAT_PRINTF(a,b) __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__,
> > a, b))) #else
> > #   define TCL_FORMAT_PRINTF(a,b)
> > #endif
> > 
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> gcc 3.0.4 docs claim this should be supported:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.0.4/gcc_5.html#SEC94
> 
> If thats not the case on IRIX, you should add a guard to that clause so the
> simple TCL_FORMAT_PRINTF(a,b) version is used, the __format__ stuff just
> does some extra security checks to detect bad printf usage patterns.
Yeah, I could do it. But should it not come out of the box?

Regards
rene