Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:43:44AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> I am attempting to build a 64-bit version of the ncurses library on
> Solaris 8/SPARC using the Sun C compiler. Building the 32-bit version
> works fine. However, for the 64-bit version (CFLAGS="-xarch=v9"):

let's back up a moment - why wasn't the "-xarch=v9" seen by the configure
script?  If it were, my configure check would have failed to find the
chunks of code where FILE members are used.  (Then vsscanf would always
return an error, rather than failing to compile).

> cd ../obj_s;  cc -I../ncurses -I.  -I. -I../include
> -I/opt/TWWfsw/ncurses5/include/ncurses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mr -Qn -xO2
> -xtarget=generic -xarch=v9  -KPIC -c ../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c
> "../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 50: undefined struct/union member: _flag
> "../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 51: undefined struct/union member: _ptr
> "../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 51: undefined struct/union member: _base
> "../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 51: warning: improper
> pointer/integer combination: op "="
> "../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 52: undefined struct/union member: _cnt
> "../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 53: undefined struct/union member: _file
> cc: acomp failed for ../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c
> 
> The problem is that in /usr/include/stdio_impl.h:
>   struct FILE {
>     long __pad[16];
>   }
> when we're compiling in 64-bit mode. For 32-bit mode, you get the
> usual things you expect in the FILE struct.
> 
> Is there a solution? An alternate vsscanf is available as part of the
> trio library:
>   http://ctrio.sourceforge.net
> 
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> albert chin (address@hidden)
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