Re: EPICS on Tru64unix and HP-UX

[Kazuro FURUKAWA <kazuro.furukawa@kek.jp>]

Hello Jeff, 

Thank you very much for your investigation and the patch.  I'll try 
it this evening as well as the improvement to CONFIG files.  

I wish you all happy holidays. 

Cheers.

>>> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:34:09 JST,  "Jeff Hill" <johill@lanl.gov> wrote;
> Hello Kazuro,
> 
> Sorry about the delay responding. Part of the reason was a closure of the
> lab here yesterday due to some significant snowfall here.
> 
> > > Ok, I'm still waiting for a comment from Jeff Hill on your patch and/or
> > > the above compile error - we committed all of your other changes, but
> > > this is Jeff's code so he gets to decide what to do about it.
> 
> The function overload supplied in the comBuf.h patch "bool push ( const char
> * value )" satisfies the compiler's quest for a function with the signature
> "bool push ( const char value [MAX_STRING_SIZE] )" but isn't 100% correct
> because the implementation pushes the value of a pointer into the stream
> instead of pushing a string of length MAX_STRING_SIZE into the stream.
> 
> I had a look at why this compiler appears to not be using "template < class
> T > bool push ( const T & value )" for T set to epicsOldString. I think I
> see the cause in osdWireFormat.h. I committed a fix to CVS. Please try the
> latest version from the R3.14 branch in CVS when you get a chance in order
> to confirm if my suspicions are correct.
> 
> Many thanks for your assistance with R3.14.9.
> 
> PS: I have attached the patch for your review.
> 
> PPS: I suspect that this matter is related to an issue detected by gcc 4.0
> several weeks ago - which apparently wasn't 100% fixed.

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Kazuro FURUKAWA <kazuro.furukawa@kek.jp>
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