Bug 78535 - Source: -ansi used on ANSI C++ incompatible code
Summary: Source: -ansi used on ANSI C++ incompatible code
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-artwork
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-25 09:57 UTC by Sysoltsev Slawa
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-12-13 23:19:05 UTC
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Patch which removes -ansi -pedantic from command line (3.89 KB, patch)
2002-11-25 10:09 UTC, Sysoltsev Slawa
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Description Sysoltsev Slawa 2002-11-25 09:57:20 UTC
Compiling redhat-artwork on my system with Intel compiler I received such 
message 
during build:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (library qt-mt) not 
found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!
error: Bad exit status from /home/users/compiler/tc_5/WORK_DIR/tmp/rpm-
tmp.18404 (%build)


But I have Qt3 installed so I began investigating.
Looking to config.log I realized that configure tried to compile test case 
which uses Qt with '-ansi -pedantic' options. But this is incorrect! Qt library 
uses STL library and gcc3.2 STL library contain GNU extensions: 
see /usr/include/c++/3.2/bits/stl_alloc.h(928) (where actually error is emitted 
with -ansi) and comment above:
  // Inhibit implicit instantiations for required instantiations,
  // which are defined via explicit instantiations elsewhere.
  // NB: This syntax is a GNU extension.

This syntax (I mean 'extern template') isn't described in ANSI C++ specification
(see paragraph 14.7.2 - Explicit instantiation) and therefore isn't allowed 
when -ansi specified in compiler command line.
GNU compiler doesn't STRICT ANSI check so code passes succesfully, but strict 
compiler will emit error. To increase Red Hat Linux portability you shouldn't 
use '-ansi -pedantic' with STL and hence Qt.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I'm afraid you won't be able to reproduce bug because you haven't compiler I 
use.
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Actual Results:  Compilation error.

Expected Results:  Succesfully built package.

Additional info:
I'll attach the patch which removes '-ansi' from command line

Comment 1 Sysoltsev Slawa 2002-11-25 10:09:51 UTC
Created attachment 86285 [details]
Patch which removes -ansi -pedantic from command line

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-12-13 23:19:05 UTC
-ansi is only used "if test "$GCC" = "yes""

-ansi would be pretty useless if you couldn't use it together with
libstdc++.

If you are convincing configure that gcc is used, you need to use a 
gcc-compatible compiler.



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