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Bug 54814
| Summary: | generates bad prototype for functions returning const pointers | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Ian Romanick <idr> |
| Component: | cproto | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | dickey, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-05-04 04:55:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 114963 | ||
This doesn't happen for a current version of cproto. See http://invisible-island.net/cproto/ Fixed in 4.7c-1. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 Description of problem: cproto generates prototypes of the form: extern const char * foo( void ) = {0}; for functions of the form const char * foo( void ) { return( NULL ); } Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a file called x.c with the single line "const char *foo(void){return (void*)0;}" 2.Run "cproto x.c" Actual Results: cproto produced the output: /* x.c */ const char *foo(void) = {0}; Expected Results: I expected cproto to produce: /* x.c */ const char *foo(void); Additional info: