Re: [chris@beezer.med.miami.edu: Re: What's wrong with bluefish?]
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Chris Mazuc wrote:
>
> > eek, that would be one hell of a compiler bug...
>
> Actually, upon further review, it seems I'm wrong again (geez, big
> shock...I seem to be wrong alot today). It's not the compiler
> misinterpreting at all. It seems that it just doesn't like the cast (and
> for good reason....it shouldn't work at all according to standards). I
> substituted an integer for the quote (I used 999) and it worked fine. I
> also removed the ampersand from another line and got the same error that
> it was throwing before. In short, until the menus are implemented more
> properly, I don't think we'll ever get this compiled on Alpha.
ok, "sed s/(int)// menu.h" for now. I'll add something to the configure
that detects for this and automagicially gets rid of the int casts
> > GTK most definitely is a magic box. put stuff in, different stuff comes
> > out and it worked somehow.
>
> I guess now's the time to figure out how it worked :-) It seems that some
> back-end assumptions were being made on the i386-compiled code, but the
> Alpha compiler must be more picky about making such assumptions. Either
> that or the GTK code itself somehow behaves slightly differently on
> certain archs.
>
> > Well, I was actually planning on getting one as my next computer, not sure
> > where I'm gonna get the cash though.. heh
>
> They're not bad if you get them on eBay. I built a nice 164SX 533MHz
> machine for a hair over $500 (I did have a nice SCSI hard drive
> already,though, which saved me some $$$).
>
> C
>
-Chris Mazuc
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