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Re: Two apparent errors in gnu make 3.80 w/MSVC 7.1


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: Two apparent errors in gnu make 3.80 w/MSVC 7.1
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:58:32 -0400

%% address@hidden writes:

  wl> (1) c:\src\gnu\make-3.80\dir.c(258) : warning C4700: local variable 
'hash' used without having been initialized

  wl> and again on line 281.  These are the macros ISTRING_HASH_[12],
  wl> and it appears to me that, assuming the macros needn't initialize
  wl> RESULT, then the functions directory_contents_hash_[12] should do
  wl> so, since the variables in question are automatic and hence
  wl> uninitialized.  This bug only applies
  wl> #ifdef WINDOWS32, the other conditions set "hash" without relying on its
  wl> initial value.

OK, I fixed this in the source.  Thanks.

  wl> ----------
  wl> (2) NMakefile line 81

  wl> Doing "NMake /f NMakefile" ends with link reporting several
  wl> missing symbols, all of which are in hash.c; inserting the
  wl> following at line 81:

  wl>   $(OUTDIR)/hash.obj \

  wl> makes the build succeed.  Though I haven't gone further than
  wl> checking "make --version" and "make --help".

This has been reported before (see the closed bugs for GNU make on the
Savannah web site) and the fix is in the source already.

Thanks!

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