Re: failure compiling octave-3.6.4 with LLVM-3.2

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 3 May 2013 18:44, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:

> trying to compile octave-3.6.4 with LLVM-3.2 I've encountered the
> following error:
>
> "
>    3797 Range.cc:440:29: error: no member named 'floor' in namespace 'gnulib'
>    3798   double t1 = 1.0 + gnulib::floor (x);
>    3799                     ~~~~~~~~^
>    3800 Range.cc:444:16: error: no member named 'floor' in namespace 'gnulib'
>    3801   t1 = gnulib::floor (x + t1);
>    3802        ~~~~~~~~^
>    3803 2 errors generated.
>    3804 Makefile:3418: *** [liboctave_la-Range.lo] Error 1
> ".
>
> If instead of LLVM-3.2 I use gcc-4.5.4, everything compiles OK.

It looks like it might be a gnulib bug. I'm cc'ing them.

> Does the above error mean bug in LLVM, gcc or Octave itself ?

> AFAIK LLVM is/used to be stricter than gcc WRT C++ standard
> compliance.

Neither is really more strict than the other; one of them implements
more than the other. It used to be that g++ was marginally ahead of
clang++, but nowadays in recent versions they have both caught up.

- Jordi G. H.