Bug#175025: dev_t problems with non-gcc compilers

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:23:33PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Package: libc6
> 
> sys/sysmacros.h seems to use different method to determine if dev_t is
> unsigned long long or an array type than the actual dev_t declaration.
> Here's a test program that fails with tcc (included with Debian):
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/sysmacros.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>         dev_t x = 0;
> 
>         printf("%d %d\n", major(x), minor(x));
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> Results as:

Shouldn't "dev_t x = 0" be:

	dev_t x = makedev(0,0);

? I think that's your problem, not a header bug. Of course, it all
depends on what line is line 9.

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