Ken Linder wrote:

Ok, I added the following code into the hdr.h file:

... #include "varargs.h" ... extern void _p_write PROTO((FDR, int, int, __va_ellipsis)); extern void _p_read PROTO((FDR, int, int, __va_ellipsis)); extern int _p_string PROTO((int, __va_ellipsis)); extern void _p_writestr PROTO((int, char *, int, __va_ellipsis)); extern void _p_readstr PROTO(char *, int, int, int, __va_ellipsis));

Well, Peter, I think the above varargs will work fine with Intel Linux but will probably do wierd things on other platforms. Hey, its my first shot at it! :-)

What I don't really understand is the additional `int' parameter before the ellipsis. Yes, I see that GCC wants it, but why? And is this portable? (Anyone knows for sure?)

The above fixed my immediate problems... but now when trying to compile pascal code, I get problems linking to _p_strlen, _p_gpc_locase, and _p_gpc_upcase. ARRGGHHH. I can't seem to find where these fcns are defined in the RTS.

(* They're defined in rts/gstrings.pas. Some other people had problems finding the definitions, too -- seems they're not used to things being implemented in Pascal actually. ;-) *)

I do see the protos though. Would anyone care to shove me in the right direction to solve this?

This is a known bug caused by inline functions being compiled without optimization. So there are two obvious solutions: remove the `inline' from these functions (the next GPC version will have this done), or compile with optimization, i.e. give `CFLAGS=-O2' to the make command line (the latter is, of course, preferable, since it produces a faster compiler, anyway).

Also, do I need to fix up the Makefile? I change hdr.h but when I do a MAKE, nothing realy happens... :-#

Yes, the Makefiles are quite broken in this regard. :-( Even worse if you should make substantial changes (esp. changing the size of some RTS data structure) in rts/types.h -- then you need to recompile some parts of the compiler, or you might get very strange behaviour, i.e. you better do a complete rebuild then...

Frank

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