Re: libm/gamma.c

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 03:11:15PM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> What kind of problem do you have?
> 
> The conversion should be implicit and compile just fine (it does for me
> on ppc64).

pmarinov@bgpfen [/tmp/dietlibc] Thu Aug 27 > 16:37:29 $ make
gcc -m64 -D__dietlibc__ -I. -isystem include -pipe -nostdinc -Os -mpowerpc64 -W -Wall -Wextra -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-switch -Wno-unused -Wredundant-decls -c libm/gamma.c -o bin-ppc64/gamma.o -D__dietlibc__
libm/gamma.c:50: error: initializer element is not constant
libm/gamma.c:50: error: (near initialization for 'coeff[2]')
libm/gamma.c:50: error: initializer element is not constant
libm/gamma.c:50: error: (near initialization for 'coeff[3]')
libm/gamma.c:50: error: initializer element is not constant
libm/gamma.c:50: error: (near initialization for 'coeff[4]')
...

I have changed BO and B1 and no error for them!


#include <math.h>

#define B0   (double)   +            1.0l/   6/ 1/ 2
#define B1   (double)   -            1.0l/  30/ 3/ 4
#define B2      +            1.0l/  42/ 5/ 6
#define B3      -            1.0l/  30/ 7/ 8

pmarinov@bgpfen [/tmp/dietlibc] $ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

pmarinov@bgpfen [/tmp/dietlibc] $ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.4
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

Nikola

PS.  I don't have root access on this host!