Hi Ian,
Thanks for looking into this issue. The issue can be avioded by either
removing const or register from the declaration. but unfortunately i
required the combination of both in my testing snerious.
Do we have any compiler option to avoid this bug.
-- Murali.
Ian Lance Taylor-3 wrote:
>
> Muralidhar <muralidharvvkmca@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I have a sample program which is compiling fine in GCC version 3.3.3
>> on SUSE Linux with kernel 2.6.5,
>> but it is giving compilation error in GCC version 4.1.2 with SUSE
>> Linux kernel 2.6.16
>>
>> >>Sample program <<
>> $ cat exam.c
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> int main()
>> {
>> register const struct { short l; unsigned char d[2]; }
>> vVRCU___I = { 2,"a" };
>> register const struct { short l; char d[2]; }
>> vVRC____I = { 2,"a" };
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> $ gcc exam.c --> gcc 4.1.2
>> exam.c: In function âmainâ:
>> exam.c:5: error: register name not specified for âvVRC____Iâ
>> exam.c:4: error: register name not specified for âvVRCU___Iâ
>
> I think this is a bug.
>
> To avoid the bug, remove the "register" keyword. There is no reason to
> ever use the "register" keyword with current versions of gcc.
>
> Ian
>
>
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