Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:21:00 -0500 From: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com> To: "Heyman, Jerrold" <Jerrold.Heyman@emc.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: <rpc/rpc.h> and rpc_createerr Message-ID: <1449811260.30424.50.camel@michaeleichorn.com> In-Reply-To: <9CDA60925D09954CA4BAD0284E2DFC43024EDE@MX204CL01.corp.emc.com> References: <9CDA60925D09954CA4BAD0284E2DFC43024EDE@MX204CL01.corp.emc.com>
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On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 19:49 +0000, Heyman, Jerrold wrote:
> I've just installed FreeBSD 10.2 in order to determine the
> portability of my companies code. Built gcc4.6 out of the ports/lang
> area, but see the same issue using /usr/bin/cc (clang 3.4.1).
>
> in /usr/include/rpc/clnt.h the following snippet:
>
> /*
> * If a creation fails, the following allows the user to figure out
> why.
> */
> struct rpc_createerr {
> enum clnt_stat cf_stat;
> struct rpc_err cf_error; /* userful when cf_stat ==
> RPC_PMAPFAILURE */
> };
>
> __BEGIN_DECLS
> extern struct rpc_createerr *__rpc_createeer(void);
> __END_DECLS
> #define rpc_createerr (*(__rpc_createeerr()))
>
> Note that the #define becomes active once the file is included, and
> in my source code I have multiple
>
> struct rpc_createerr *ce;
>
> declarations. Both cc and gcc cite this as an error, though for
> different reasons.
>
> gcc complains that a '(' is found where a '{' is expected.
> The cc error message is 'error: declaration of anyonymous struct must
> be a definition'.
>
> My other ports - Linux, AIX, Solaris, Mac OSX, do not have the
> #define in /usr/include/rpc/clnt.h.
> The HP-UX does, but it is encapsulated within a #ifdef _REENTRANT /
> #endif block.
>
> Is this an actual error, or is there something on FreeBSD that I need
> to do that is different than the other platforms?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> jerry
>
> Jerry Heyman |
> Principal Software Engineer | Software is the
> difference
> EMC Data Domain | between hardware and
> reality
> Jerrold.Heyman@emc.com / 919.597.7812 |
The freebsd-questions hasn't been very good at answering these kind of
questions of late, you might have better luck on a more technical list
like freebsd-hackers.
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