Bug 21362

Summary:	RH 7 compiler rejects fpos_t assignments (RH6.2 worked)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <jsprigg>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	fweimer
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Description Need Real Name 2000-11-26 21:54:23 UTC

In Red Hat 6.2, I could declare & assign fpos_t as follows:

fpos_t loc;
loc = 0;

In Red Hat 7, the same code generates a compiler error:

"incompatible types in assignment"


Please help - This was an experiment to convince my bosses to switch from 
NT to Linux.

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2000-11-27 07:20:40 UTC

fpos_t is no longer a scalar type, there is nothing in the standards
which demand this to be a scalar btw. This is so that proper wide
stream support could be added.
As I have no idea what you wanted to achieve, I cannot suggest
what you should do instead, but one hint could be that fpos_t used
to be the same as off_t (resp. off64_t for fpos64_t), so you could
maybe use those types instead.
This is not related to gcc at all, the change happened in glibc
headers.