Re: [Bug-gsl]Not a bug, just another platform on which GSL works fine...

[Brian Gough]

Maarten De Munck writes:
 > At the department, we mainly use HP workstations. Our primary C
 > (and C++) compiler is the HP ANSI C++ compiler. This compiler is
 > extremely strict about type conversions, and the source code needed
 > two little changes to compile:
 >  In vector/vector_source.c, line 28:
 >      const BASE zero = ZERO;
 >  should become
 >      BASE zero = ZERO;
 >  because this zero is used as a non-const function argument, passed
 > by address. Probably it is also possible to change the function
 > declaration somewhere, but this change was faster, and it isn't
 > that dirty.
 >  And in matrix/matrix_source.c, line 25, the same change is needed.
 >  With these two changes, GSL compiles fine with the HP aCC
 > compiler. The compiler needs the '-AE' flag, to turn the c89 mode
 > on, but that's quite normal for C programs.

Thanks for the bug report!

-- 
Brian Gough

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