address@hidden: Re: ncurses and mpfr don't play well together]

[Mike Castle]

Consider yourself notified.

Is this really an ncurses issues or part of all curses implementations?

mrc
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From: Patrick Pelissier <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: ncurses and mpfr don't play well together
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:46:14 -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> 
> With a recent vintage of ncurses and mpfr-2.1.0 (also happens with a fairly
> recently version of mpfr-2.2.0 pulled from cvs as shipped with
> genius-0.7.2), the following causes problems:
> 
> address@hidden:43pm]~(510) cat t.c
> #include <term.h>
> #include <mpfr.h>
> address@hidden:43pm]~(511) gcc -c t.c
> In file included from t.c:2:
> /usr/include/mpfr.h:438: error: parse error before '->' token
> 
> 
> Turns out that term.h has the following lines of interest:
> 
> #define CUR cur_term->type.
> #define tab                            CUR Strings[134]
> 
> And mpfr.h has:
> 
> int mpfr_sum _MPFR_PROTO ((mpfr_ptr, mpfr_ptr __gmp_const tab[], unsigned
> long,
>                            mpfr_rnd_t));
> 
> 
> Which causes:
> 
> address@hidden:44pm]~(514) gcc -c -save-temps t.c
> In file included from t.c:2:
> /usr/include/mpfr.h:438: error: parse error before '->' token
> address@hidden:44pm]~(515) grep mpfr_sum t.i
> int mpfr_sum (mpfr_ptr, mpfr_ptr const cur_term->type. Strings[134][], 
> unsigned long, mpfr_rnd_t);
> 
> 
> My local solution was to replace tab with t_ab as a work around.

 Just remove tab should work too.

 But it is a bug of ncurses, which is not namespace clean.
 You better report it to the developpers of ncurses.

 Sincerely,
  Patrick Pelissier

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