RE: [xml] Compilation problems

["Alfred Reibenschuh" <alfred reibenschu chello at>]

hi!

if you need string functions and trio gives you headaches
you should check out http://www.engelschall.com/sw/str/
although labeled alpha it's quite stable for my apps
and even features regular-expression support.

-- Alfred Reibenschuh

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml-admin gnome org [mailto:xml-admin gnome org]On Behalf Of Bjorn
> Reese
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 10:34 PM
> To: Olivier Dwelshauvers
> Cc: xml list
> Subject: Re: [xml] Compilation problems
>
>
> Olivier Dwelshauvers wrote:
>
> > Libxml2-2.3.5 is working well, almost out of the box except for the
> > XPath problem (null division).
>
> Try to insert the following line before the first division by zero in
> xpath.c / xmlXPathInit(), and let us know if it works.
>
>   signal(SIGFPE, SIG_IGN);
>
> > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./include -I./include -g -c trio.c
> > -DPIC -o .libs/trio.lo
> [...]
> > cc: Error: trio.c, line 2172: In this statement, "0" and "(args)" cannot
> > be compared for equality or inequality. (noequality)
> >   assert(VALID(args));
> > --^
> > cc: Error: trio.c, line 2680: In this statement, "0" and "(args)" cannot
> > be compared for equality or inequality. (noequality)
> >   assert(VALID(args));
> > --^
>
> The immediate solution to your problem is to remove those two lines (and
> similar lines, if the compiler continues to complain). They are only
> intended for a debug built, and even in a debug built they aren't 
> necessary.
>
> The DECC compiler does not seem to handle assertions correctly. Although
> it correctly complains about the "noequality" -- on 64 bits Alpha machines
> the va_list is not a pointer to the list as on other platforms, but is
> encoded directly into the parameter -- it should not even try to compile
> the code unless DEBUG has been defined (if DEBUG is undefined, the trio
> sourcecode will automatically define NDEBUG which disables assertions).
>
> However, this is not the first time that the DECC compiler is giving me
> these problems. I will look into creating a permanent solutions next week
> (the same applies to the trio compilation problems on Windows).
>
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