A short example of Parrot GC pain

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 03:39:07PM -0700, chromatic wrote:
> How does the example fare for you with this patch?

The patch applies cleanly but the Parrot build fails at the
"parrot_nci_thunk_gen" step:

[...]
./parrot_nci_thunk_gen --dynext --no-warn-dups \
		--output=src/extra_nci_thunks.c <src/nci/extra_thunks.nci
ccache gcc -I./include -I./include/pmc  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHASATTRIBUTE_CONST  -DHASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED  -DHASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC  -DHASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL  -DHASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN  -DHASATTRIBUTE_PURE  -DHASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED  -DHASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT  -DHASATTRIBUTE_HOT  -DHASATTRIBUTE_COLD  -DDISABLE_GC_DEBUG=1 -DNDEBUG -DHAS_GETTEXT     -fPIC -O2 -g -falign-functions=16 -fvisibility=hidden -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -W -Wall -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wchar-subscripts -Wcomment -Wdisabled-optimization -Wdiv-by-zero -Wendif-labels -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Wimplicit -Wimport -Winit-self -Winline -Winvalid-pch -Wlogical-op -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-field-initializers -Wno-missing-format-attribute -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmultichar -Wpacked -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wpointer-sign -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wswitch -Wswitch-default -Wtrigraphs -Wundef -Wno-unused -Wunknown-pragmas -Wvariadic-macros -Wwrite-strings -Wbad-function-cast -Wc++-compat -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Werror=declaration-after-statement -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Wmain -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wnonnull -Wold-style-definition -fPIC -Isrc -o src/extra_nci_thunks.o -c src/extra_nci_thunks.c
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1535:9: warning: null character(s) ignored
src/extra_nci_thunks.c: In function ‘pcf_p_Jipp’:
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1535: error: stray ‘\320’ in program
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1535: error: ‘A’ undeclared (first use in this function)
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1535: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1535: error: for each function it appears in.)
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1535: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘)’ token
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1535: error: expected statement before ‘)’ token
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1535: error: stray ‘\1’ in program
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1535: error: ‘_1’ undeclared (first use in this function)
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1536: error: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:1539: error: ‘t_1’ undeclared (first use in this function)
src/extra_nci_thunks.c: At top level:
src/extra_nci_thunks.c:6704: warning: no previous prototype for ‘Parrot_lib_extra_nci_thunks_init’
make: *** [src/extra_nci_thunks.o] Error 1
pmichaud at plum:~/parrot/trunk$ 

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