Re: compiler error on PPC64

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:00:30PM +0100, Manoj Iyer wrote:
> 
> I am getting an error message from the compiler on PPC64 (gcc version
> powerpc64-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.3.3-hammer)
> 
> ppc-linux-tdep.c:956: error: parse error before numeric constant
> 
> This happens when the file is compiled as 64bit, on suse with 2.6 kernel
> headers. What I think is wrong is that, is there any reason to use
> 
> enum {
>   ELF_NGREG = 48,
>   ELF_NFPREG = 33,
>   ELF_NVRREG = 33
> };
> 
> instead of using
> 
> #define  ELF_NGREG  48
> #define  ELF_NFPREG  33
> #define  ELF_NVRREG  33
> 
> Because, in the header file,
> 
> /usr/include/asm-ppc64/elf.h:#define ELF_NGREG 48 /* includes nip, msr,
> lr, etc. */
> 
> is already defined as 48 and the compiler sees 48 = 48 in the enum and so
> complains.

Even better, the constants should be renamed not to conflict with the
copies in the system headers.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer