Re: GCC flaw in FreeBSD5? Cone 0.58 does not compile (was: Cone 0.58 released.)

Matthias Andree writes:

> 0.58 - without any patches - does not compile on FreeBSD 5-CURRENT:
> 
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/root/ports/mail/cone/work/cone-0.58/libmail'
> gmake  all-am
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/root/ports/mail/cone/work/cone-0.58/libmail'
> Compiling mbox.C
> mbox.C: In member function `bool mail::mbox::scan(mail::file&, mail::file*, 
>    bool, std::set<std::string, std::less<std::string>, 
>    std::allocator<std::string> >*, bool, mail::callback*)':
> mbox.C:1246: error: base operand of `->' has non-pointer type `mail::file'
> mbox.C:1283: error: base operand of `->' has non-pointer type `mail::file'
> gmake[3]: *** [mbox.o] Error 1
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/root/ports/mail/cone/work/cone-0.58/libmail'
> gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> The code looks fine and compiles fine on SuSE Linux 8.2 with an updated
> vanilla GCC 3.3.3. Given that mail::file has an operator FILE *() that
> returns the FILE* pointer, I don't see what the compiler wants to tell
> me. Cc:'ing FreeBSD-current.

Perhaps fileno() is a macro?

Try inserting an explicit cast to FILE *.

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