Another 4.3 c++ question.... (vmware kernel g++ module rebuild issue)

[Tom London]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:53:48AM -0800, Tom London wrote:
>  > vmware module rebuild fails with kernel-2.6.25-0.35.rc1.fc9.i686 (and
>  > gcc-c++-4.3.0-0.7.i386?).
>  >
>  > The following code from <asm/page.h> compiles fine with gcc but not with g++:
>  >
>  > typedef int pteval_t;
>  >
>  > struct pte_t {
>  >         pteval_t pte;
>  >         int junk;
>  > };
>  >
>  > typedef struct pte_t pte_t;
>  >
>  > static inline pte_t native_make_pte(pteval_t val)
>  > {
>  >         return (pte_t) { .pte = val };
>  > }
>  >
>  > [tbl at localhost ~]$ g++ -S t.c
>  > t.c: In function 'pte_t native_make_pte(pteval_t)':
>  > t.c:12: error: expected primary-expression before ')' token
>  > t.c:12: error: expected ';' before '{' token
>  > t.c:12: error: expected primary-expression before '.' token
>  > t.c:12: error: expected `;' before '}' token
>  >
>  >
>  > Has 4.3 g++ changed the acceptability of the "designated initializer"
>  > in the return?
>
>  No, if you try g++ 4.1.x, it will fail the same way.
>  Really, C is not a subset of C++, it is a different language, and this
>  header is written in C (particularly ISO C99).
>
>  Why are you trying to compile vmware with g++ rather than gcc?
>
>         Jakub
>
Sigh ..... appears that VMWare uses some g++ "down in the module".

I had no problem compiling VMWare modules prior to yesterday, so I'm
guessing some changes to kernel header files exposed this.

Any idea why the old "colon" syntax would appear to still work?  (at
least not complain)? That seems a bit strange.

tom
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Tom London