Re: Compilation error - More Info

[John Leuner]

> I though it was plain old C.
> It's simply that I was using gcc 3.0.3 which allows this (I think it 
> does C99 ?),
> so no error, so I thought it was ok C.
> R.

Yeah, I ran into this earlier with kissme too. People who are using older 
compilers, eg 2.95.4 in debian/woody won't be able to compile.

I suspect we'll have to ask everyone who is changing native code to test with 
the 2.9x compilers before they commit.

John Leuner

> Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:24:34PM -0400, Brian Jones wrote:
> >
> >>I disabled javax.swing in standard.omit.  Having trouble compiling the
> >>java_nio.c recently added as well.
> >>
> >
> >I was planning to submit a bug report about it... java_nio.c contains
> >invalid C code. (C, unlike C++, does not support declarations between
> >statements). Maybe the author of java_nio.c was using a C++ compiler?
> >
> >Personal comment: I do not want to start a discussion thread about
> >this, but I think we should keep the JNI native part in plain C (as it
> >already is). Of course, C++ would be encouraged for the CNI stuff. :)
> >
> >Etienne
> >
> 
> 
> 
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