26/32bit Acorn C/C++ Tools and OSLib

[Stewart Brodie]

In message <A49BB348EDE2A245A500A4863D5E8B2B13379F at namn100a.sbs.be>
          TIMMERMANS ANDRE <Andre.Timmermans at sbs.be> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	John Tytgat [SMTP:John.Tytgat at aaug.net]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, October 30, 2002 4:03 PM
> > To:	oslib-user at compton.nu
> > Subject:	Re: 26/32bit Acorn C/C++ Tools and OSLib
> > 
> > In message <5f4c928d4b.Tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
> >           Tony van der Hoff <tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 30 Oct 2002, in message <2c708f8d4b.Jo at hobbes.riscos.be>,
> > > John Tytgat <John.Tytgat at aaug.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is someone busy with patches to make OSLib in SourceForge compilable with
> > > > the new 26/32bit Acorn C/C++ Tools from Castle ? I think the biggest
> > > > problem is Tools.Yacc as its C style is no longer accepted.
> > > 
> > > Well, not me :-(
> > > 
> > > I intend to purchase the new tools, but as I am busy with other things, I
> > > have not yet done so. I was therefore not aware that this presented a
> > > problem.
> > 
> > The only problem I saw so far (and then didn't continue to use the 26/32bit
> > tools) that is much more picky on function defintions without return type,
> > and using functions before they have been declared etc.  I thought that
> > I should have been able to get around it by using flags like -pcc but
> > that didn't help (caused other problems).  :-(
> > 
> If you are using the new tools, I think there is a -c90
> mode to revert to the old c90 standard instead of the c99 one.
> 
> So far my main complain with c99 on my own projects is the warnings
> about implicit conversions of signed integers given as hex
> in the range [0x8000000,0xffffffff].

Put a u suffix on them and cast them then:   (signed) 0xffffffffu

-- 
Stewart Brodie, Senior Software Engineer    (Views expressed are my own and
Pace Micro Technology PLC                   not those of my employer)
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