Bug in glibc-2.2.5 pthread.h header

c0ma2k · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 15 Location: Germany

There seems to be a bug in glibc's pthread.h header at line 608, which misses a }. I didn't check the original sources, as I assumed this to be a problem with Gentoo's version of glibc. I found the problem in releases r6 and r7.

Can anybody confirm this, or is it just some weird thing with my installation?

Tuna · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 485 Location: Berlin

did you use any custom compiler flags?
i experienced such behaviour while compiling some quake sourcecode, and with certain flags the compilation aborted complaing about some parse errors with {}.
maybe that is related. better try to compile it with default optimisations.

c0ma2k · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 15 Location: Germany

I'm sure this has nothing to do with optimizations. I encountered the error in one of my own projects, not in an ebuild. To be more specific, pthread.h defines a macro as this:

#define pthread_cleanup_push(routine,arg) \
{ struct _pthread_cleanup_buffer _buffer; \
_pthread_cleanup_push (&_buffer, (routine), (arg));

This obviously misses the closing bracket, which the compiler comments with an "unexpected end of file" error in my own code. Add a }, and everything is fine.

rac · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 6:11 pm Post subject:

Look at the definition of pthread_cleanup_pop.
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c0ma2k · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 15 Location: Germany

Guess, sometimes I should actually read code documentations... Sorry about that silly question.