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Re: bug#34817: coreutils 8.31 compile failure on rhel5
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: bug#34817: coreutils 8.31 compile failure on rhel5 |
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Wed, 13 Mar 2019 19:35:07 +0100 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report. I installed the attached patch into Gnulib.
A simpler fix would have been to mark the 'minus_zero' variable as 'static':
--- a/lib/strtod.c
+++ b/lib/strtod.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ compute_minus_zero (void)
}
# define minus_zero compute_minus_zero ()
#else
-DOUBLE minus_zero = -0.0;
+static DOUBLE minus_zero = -0.0;
#endif
/* Convert NPTR to a DOUBLE. If ENDPTR is not NULL, a pointer to the
When this variable was introduced, it ought to have been 'static' from the
beginning (2010-11-05); but this was harmless until 2019-01-30. I did not
notice the problem when doing the 2019-01-30 changes; sorry.
Bruno