compiler error on PPC64

Manoj Iyer manjo@austin.ibm.com
Fri Mar 12 21:31:00 GMT 2004


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.

Thanks
Manoj Iyer



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