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Emacs pretest 24.2.92 - compilation error on AIX 5.3 using gcc 4.7-2

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: gpion <at> lfdj.com, 13408 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13408: Emacs pretest 24.2.92 - compilation error on AIX 5.3 using	gcc 4.7-2
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:11:25 -0800

On 01/11/2013 01:15 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:03:39 -0800
>> > From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
>> > 
>> > The other problem is due to a stray '*'.  This was fixed a while ago
>> > in the trunk, so I backported that to emacs-24 as bzr 111171.
> Do you happen to know what did GCC make out that, before the change?
> Did it just ignore the dereference?

No, GCC consistently refused to compile it.  It's just that
this code is rarely compiled -- it's normally ifdeffed out,
so GCC doesn't see the problem.  I suppose that on AIX the
code is not ifdeffed out, so that's why the bug was reported
for AIX.

In older Emacs versions, the types were different and the
"*" was OK; it became a stray "*" only fairly recently.

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