Re: Error compiling bison 3.4.2 on Solaris

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/15/19 4:07 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:

> It seems to be a compiler issue:
> Studio 12.6: works
> Studio 12.5: works
> Studio 12.4: works
> Studio 12.3: broken with the error above
> Studio 12.2: broken with the error above
> Studio 12.1: broken with the error above
> Studio 12: broken with the error above

That explains why I didn't see the problem; I was using 12.6.

> Studio 12.3 is already quite old and I am not
> sure if it worth further investigation, what do you think?

Might as well fix it now that you brought it up. Studio 12.3 is 
supported by Oracle until December of this year.[1] Older Studio 
releases are no longer supported, so I wouldn't bother using them to 
check GNU code - why should GNU worry about a proprietary platform if 
even the proprietor doesn't?

The bug has to do with the confusing reinclusion between stdint.h, 
inttypes.h, etc. As you say, this is low priority, so rather than figure 
out the actual bug I installed the attached workaround, which should be 
safe on all platforms.

[1] Oracle and Sun System Software and Operating Systems – October, 
2019. https://www.oracle.com/us/assets/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf

0001-inttypes-use-more-robust-test-for-int-range.patch
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