Re: invalid conversion from 'volatile void*' to 'void*' error on AIX 5.3

[Loris Bennett]

"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 30-Jul-2009, Loris Bennett wrote:
>
> | Hi,
> | 
> | Compiling Octave 3.2.2 and GCC 4.3.3 on AIX 5.3 I am getting the
> | errors
> | 
> |      pt-eval.cc: In function 'void
> |      do_unwind_protect_cleanup_code(void*)':
> |    
> |      pt-eval.cc:918: error: invalid conversion from 'volatile void*'
> |      to 'void*'
> | 
> |      pt-eval.cc:918: error: initializing argument 2 of 'static void
> |      unwind_protect::add(void (*)(void*), void*)'
> | 
> | Any ideas what could be causing this?
>
> Does changing line 918 of pt-eval.cc from
>
>   unwind_protect::add (restore_interrupt_state,
>   &saved_octave_interrupt_state);
>
> to
>
>   unwind_protect::add (restore_interrupt_state, (void
>   *)(&saved_octave_interrupt_state));
>
> avoid the problem for you?
>
> jwe

Yes, this solves the problem. I now just get a warning

     pt-eval.cc: In function 'void do_unwind_protect_cleanup_code(void*)':
     pt-eval.cc:919: warning: use of old-style cast

Thanks,

Loris

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Dr. Loris Bennett
Computer Centre
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany