GNU bug report logs - #21700
new snapshot available: grep-2.21.78-7da30

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 05:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 21700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Subject: Re: bug#21700: new snapshot available: grep-2.21.78-7da30
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:34:16 -0700

I ran into a problem with this release on Solaris 10 with Sun C 5.13:

  CC       fts.o
"fts.c", line 1915: warning: type of struct member "__b" can not be derived fro\
m structure with flexible array member
"fts.c", line 1915: warning: type of struct member "__b" can not be derived fro\
m structure with flexible array member

This is due to the use of Gnulib alignof to calculate the alignment of a struct 
with a flexible array member; the Gnulib implementation doesn't support this on 
C99 (it violates a C99 constraint).  I'll look into a workaround within fts.

I did manage a build on AIX with xlc; works OK.
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