[Buildroot] Analysis results for 2018-10-09

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 07:43:32 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:

> The build only fails with the CT-NG PowerPC e500 toolchain. Is that the
> only gcc 4.7 toolchain?
> 
> This is the failing code:
> 
> typedef double hbase_f(double);
> 
> class StatHist
> {
>     ...
>     hbase_f *val_in = nullptr;        /* e.g., log() for log-based histogram */
>     hbase_f *val_out = nullptr;       /* e.g., exp() for log based histogram */
> }
> 
> For some reason this version of gcc considers val_in/val_out as
> methods.

They are function pointers, since hbase_f is a typedef of a function
that takes a double as argument and returns a double.

Indeed, the following minimal program:

typedef double hbase_f(double);

class StatHist
{
	hbase_f *val_in = nullptr;
};

fails to build with gcc 4.7, but builds fine with a more recent gcc. It
would be good to find another gcc 4.7 toolchain to see if the same
problem occurs.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
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