On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:53:48AM -0800, Tom London wrote:
vmware module rebuild fails with kernel-2.6.25-0.35.rc1.fc9.i686 (and gcc-c++-4.3.0-0.7.i386?).
The following code from <asm/page.h> compiles fine with gcc but not with g++:
typedef int pteval_t;
struct pte_t { pteval_t pte; int junk; };
typedef struct pte_t pte_t;
static inline pte_t native_make_pte(pteval_t val) { return (pte_t) { .pte = val }; }
[tbl@localhost ~]$ g++ -S t.c t.c: In function 'pte_t native_make_pte(pteval_t)': t.c:12: error: expected primary-expression before ')' token t.c:12: error: expected ';' before '{' token t.c:12: error: expected primary-expression before '.' token t.c:12: error: expected `;' before '}' token
Has 4.3 g++ changed the acceptability of the "designated initializer" in the return?
No, if you try g++ 4.1.x, it will fail the same way. Really, C is not a subset of C++, it is a different language, and this header is written in C (particularly ISO C99).
Why are you trying to compile vmware with g++ rather than gcc?
Jakub