Re: C++ Bindings Generate static const Code that will not Compile

[Bowie Owens <bowie owens csiro au>]

lgust verizon net wrote:

> Hi Bowie,
>
> We have verified that we checked out of CVS the source code with
> your change. Now when I run my test program the IDL compiler
> generates the following statement:
>
>        static  char const* const SIZE = "SIZE";
>
> The statement causes the same compilation error that I saw before
> the change:
>
> gcc -c -g -DORBIT2=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/home/nfr/local/include/orbit2.0
> -I/home/nfr/local/include/linc-1.0
> -I/home/nfr/local/include/glib-2.0
> -I/home/nfr/local/lib/glib2.0/include
> -I/home/nfr/local/include/orbitcpp-2.0 client.cc
> In file included from cf-cpp-stubs.h:11,
>                 from client.cc:3:
> cf-cpp-common.h:46: invalid in-class initialization of static data member of 
>   non-integral type `const char* const'
>
> I'm using gcc 3.2 to compile this test program:
>
> [lgust urouter17 ~/test/rose-cf] $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.2.3
>  
I managed to reproduce the error you are getting. But to do so I had to 
switch on -pedantic. Are you using using this flag in your build? 
(Obviously it isn't listed above.) Was your GCC installed from a 
standard package or was it built manually?

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