Re: [Help-glpk] Variable Assigned to itself

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Norman Jessup wrote:

> I'm trying to compile the glpk source using the Eclipse IDE (I'm not terribly 
> familiar with either).  One module, glpini01.c, is generating multiple errors 
> of the form:
>
>    "Assignment to istelf 't = t' "
>
> On looking at the code this does seem to be the case.  I'm not sure if this 
> is allowed by the C++ standard or not, and there is an option I can set to 
> ignore this "error".  However, as the starting value of t is established just 
> a few lines before the "error" it seems it would be very straightforward to 
> modify this so that no compiler or pre-compiler complains.  Is there any 
> reason why this can't be done ?   I'd be happy to submit proposed changes,

Make sure you understand the error first.
Use -save-temps and look at the .ii file.

> though given these are trivial it may be easier for the guardians of the code 
> to change themselves rather than vet my updates.

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