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Installing GNU CC
*****************
Here is the procedure for installing GNU CC on a Unix system.
* Menu:
* Other Dir:: Compiling in a separate directory (not where the source is).
* Sun Install:: See below for installation on the Sun.
* 3B1 Install:: See below for installation on the 3B1.
* SCO Install:: See below for installation on SCO System V 3.2. (Or ESIX.)
* VMS Install:: See below for installation on VMS.
* HPUX Install:: See below for installation on HPUX.
* MIPS Install:: See below for installation on MIPS.
* Tower Install:: See below for installation on an NCR Tower.
1. Edit `Makefile'. If you are using HPUX, or any form of system
V, you must make a few changes described in comments at the
beginning of the file. Genix requires changes also, and so does
the Pyramid.
2. On a Sequent system, go to the Berkeley universe.
3. Choose configuration files. The easy way to do this is to run
the command file `config.gcc' with a single argument, which
specifies the type of machine (and in some cases which operating
system).
Here is a list of the possible arguments:
`vax'
Vaxes running BSD.
`vms'
Vaxes running VMS.
`vax-sysv'
Vaxes running system V.
`i386-sysv'
Intel 386 PCs running system V.
`i386-sysv-gas'
Intel 386 PCs running system V, using the GNU assembler and
GNU linker.
`sequent-i386'
Sequent with Intel 386 processors.
`i386-aix'
Intel 386 PCs or PS/2s running AIX.
`sun2'
Sun 2 running system version 2 or 3.
`sun3'
Sun 3 running system version 2 or 3, with 68881. Note
there we do not provide a configuration file to use an FPA
by default, because programs that establish signal handlers
for floating point traps inherently cannot work with the FPA.
`sun3-nfp'
Sun 3 running system version 2 or 3, without 68881.
`sun4'
Sun 4 running system version 2 or 3. *Note
Incompatibilities::, for calling convention
incompatibilities on the Sun 4 (sparc).
`sun2-os4'
Sun 2 running system version 4.
`sun3-os4'
Sun 3 running system version 4, with 68881.
`sun3-nfp-os4'
Sun 3 running system version 4, without 68881.
`sun4-os4'
Sun 4 running system version 4. *Note Incompatibilities::,
for calling convention incompatibilities on the Sun 4
(sparc).
`sun386'
Sun 386 ("roadrunner").
`alliant'
Alliant FX/8 computer. Note that the standard installed C
compiler in Concentrix 5.0 has a bug which prevent it from
compiling GNU CC correctly. You can patch the compiler bug
as follows:
cp /bin/pcc ./pcc
adb -w ./pcc - << EOF
15f6?w 6610
EOF
Then you must use the `-ip12' option when compiling GNU CC
with the patched compiler, as shown here:
make CC="./pcc -ip12" CFLAGS=-w
Note also that Alliant's version of DBX does not manage to
work with the output from GNU CC.
`tahoe'
The tahoe computer (running BSD, and using DBX).
`decstation'
The DEC 3100 Mips machine ("pmax"). Note that GNU CC
cannot generate debugging information in the unusual format
used on the Mips.
`mips-sysv'
The Mips computer, RS series, with the System V environment
as default. Note that GNU CC cannot generate debugging
information in the unusual format used on the Mips.
`mips-bsd43'
The Mips computer, RS series, with the BSD 4.3 environment
as default. Note that GNU CC cannot generate debugging
information in the unusual format used on the Mips.
`mips'
The Mips computer, M series. Note that GNU CC cannot
generate debugging information in the unusual format used
on the Mips.
`iris'
Another variant of the Mips computer, the Silicon Graphics
Iris 4D. Note that GNU CC cannot generate debugging
information in the unusual format used on the Mips.
`convex-c1'
Convex C1 computer.
`convex-c2'
Convex C2 computer.
`pyramid'
Pyramid computer.
`hp9k320'
HP 9000 series 300 using HPUX assembler. Note there is no
support in GNU CC for HP's debugger; thus, `-g' is not
available in this configuration.
`hp9k320-gas'
HP 9000 series 300 using GNU assembler, linker and debugger.
This requires the HP-adapt package, which is available
along with the GNU linker as part of the "binutils"
distribution. This is on the GNU CC distribution tape.
`hp9k320-old'
HP 9000 series 300 using HPUX assembler, in operating
system versions older than 6.5. Note there is no support
in GNU CC for HP's debugger; thus, `-g' is not available in
this configuration.
`hp9k320-bsd'
HP 9000 series 300 running BSD.
`isi68'
ISI 68000 or 68020 system with a 68881.
`isi68-nfp'
ISI 68000 or 68020 system without a 68881.
`news800'
Sony NEWS 68020 system.
`next'
NeXT system.
`tower'
NCR Tower 32 system.
`altos'
Altos 3068. Note that you must use the GNU assembler,
linker and debugger, with COFF-encapsulation. Also, you
must fix a kernel bug. Details in the file `ALTOS-README'.
`3b1'
AT&T 3b1, a.k.a. 7300 PC. Note that special procedures are
needed to compile GNU CC with this machine's standard C
compiler, due to bugs in that compiler. *Note 3b1
Install::. You can bootstrap it more easily with previous
versions of GNU CC if you have them.
`3b1-gas'
AT&T 3b1 using the GNU assembler.
`sequent-ns32k'
Sequent containing ns32000 processors.
`encore'
Encore ns32000 system.
`genix'
National Semiconductor ns32000 system.
`88000'
Motorola 88000 processor. This port is not finished.
Here we spell out what files need to be set up:
* Make a symbolic link named `config.h' to the top-level
config file for the machine you are using (*note
Config::.). This file is responsible for defining
information about the host machine. It includes `tm.h'.
The file is located in the subdirectory `config'. Its name
should be `xm-MACHINE.h', with these exceptions:
`xm-vms.h'
for vaxen running VMS.
`xm-vaxv.h'
for vaxen running system V.
`xm-i386v.h'
for Intel 80386's running system V.
`xm-sun386i.h'
for Sun roadrunner running any version of the
operating system.
`xm-hp9k320.h'
for the HP 9000 series 300.
`xm-genix.h'
for the ns32000 running Genix
If your system does not support symbolic links, you might
want to set up `config.h' to contain a `#include' command
which refers to the appropriate file.
* Make a symbolic link named `tm.h' to the
machine-description macro file for your machine. It should
be in the subdirectory `config' and its name should be
`tm-MACHINE.h'.
If your system is a 68000, don't use the file `tm-m68k.h'
directly. Instead, use one of these files:
`tm-sun3.h'
for Sun 3 machines with 68881.
`tm-sun3-nfp.h'
for Sun 3 machines with no hardware floating point.
`tm-sun3os3.h'
for Sun 3 machines with 68881, running Sunos version 3.
`tm-sun3os3nf.h'
for Sun 3 machines with no hardware floating point,
running Sunos version 3.
`tm-sun2.h'
for Sun 2 machines.
`tm-3b1.h'
for AT&T 3b1 (aka 7300 Unix PC).
`tm-isi68.h'
for Integrated Solutions systems. This file assumes
you use the GNU assembler.
`tm-isi68-nfp.h'
for Integrated Solutions systems without a 68881.
This file assumes you use the GNU assembler.
`tm-news800.h'
for Sony NEWS systems.
`tm-hp9k320.h'
for HPUX systems, if you are using GNU CC with the
system's assembler and linker.
`tm-hp9k320g.h'
for HPUX systems, if you are using the GNU assembler,
linker and other utilities. Not all of the pieces of
GNU software needed for this mode of operation are as
yet in distribution; full instructions will appear
here in the future.
`tm-tower-as.h'
for NCR Tower 32 systems, using the standard system
assembler.
For the vax, use `tm-vax.h' on BSD Unix, `tm-vaxv.h' on
system V, or `tm-vms.h' on VMS.
For the Motorola 88000, use `tm-m88k.h'. The support for
the 88000 does not currently work; it requires extensive
changes which we hope to reconcile in version 2.
For the 80386, don't use `tm-i386.h' directly. Use
`tm-i386v.h' if the target machine is running system V,
`tm-i386gas.h' if it is running system V but you are using
the GNU assembler and linker, `tm-seq386.h' for a Sequent
386 system, or `tm-compaq.h' for a Compaq, or
`tm-sun386i.h' for a Sun 386 system.
For the Mips computer, there are five choices: `tm-mips.h'
for the M series, `tm-mips-bsd.h' for the RS series with
BSD, `tm-mips-sysv.h' for the RS series with System V,
`tm-iris.h' for the Iris version of the machine, and
`tm-decstatn.h' for the Decstation.
For the 32000, use `tm-sequent.h' if you are using a
Sequent machine, or `tm-encore.h' for an Encore machine, or
`tm-genix.h' if you are using Genix version 3; otherwise,
perhaps `tm-ns32k.h' will work for you.
Note that Genix has bugs in `alloca' and `malloc'; you must
get the compiled versions of these from GNU Emacs and edit
GNU CC's `Makefile' to use them.
Note that Encore systems are supported only under BSD.
For Sparc (Sun 4) machines, use `tm-sparc.h' with operating
system version 4, and `tm-sun4os3.h' with system version 3.
For Convex systems before version 8.1, use `tm-conv1os7.h'
or `tm-conv2os7.h'. For versions 8.1 and greater, use
`tm-convex1.h' or `tm-convex2.h'. You should also
bootstrap GCC with `pcc' rather than `cc'; one way to do
this is with the following commands.
ln -s /bin/pcc ./cc
set path = (. $path)
* Make a symbolic link named `md' to the machine description
pattern file. It should be in the `config' subdirectory
and its name should be `MACHINE.md'; but MACHINE is often
not the same as the name used in the `tm.h' file because
the `md' files are more general.
* Make a symbolic link named `aux-output.c' to the output
subroutine file for your machine. It should be in the
`config' subdirectory and its name should be `out-MACHINE.c'.
4. Make sure the Bison parser generator is installed. (This is
unnecessary if the Bison output files `c-parse.tab.c' and
`cexp.c' are more recent than `c-parse.y' and `cexp.y' and you
do not plan to change the `.y' files.)
Bison versions older than Sept 8, 1988 will produce incorrect
output for `c-parse.tab.c'.
5. If you have a previous version of GCC installed, then chances
are you can compile the new version with that. Do the following:
make CC="gcc -O"
Since this produces an optimized executable right away, there is
no need to bootstrap the result with itself except to test it.
Therefore, you can skip directly to the `make install' step below.
6. Build the compiler. Just type `make' in the compiler directory.
Ignore any warnings you may see about "statement not reached" in
the `insn-emit.c'; they are normal. Any other compilation
errors may represent bugs in the port to your machine or
operating system, and should be investigated and reported (*note
Bugs::.).
Some commercial compilers fail to compile GNU CC because they
have bugs or limitations. For example, the Microsoft compiler
is said to run out of macro space. Some Ultrix compilers run
out of expression space; then you need to break up the statement
where the problem happens.
7. If you are using COFF-encapsulation, you must convert `gnulib'
to a GNU-format library at this point. See the file
`README-ENCAP' in the directory containing the GNU binary file
utilities, for directions.
8. Move the first-stage object files and executables into a
subdirectory with this command:
make stage1
The files are moved into a subdirectory named `stage1'. Once
installation is complete, you may wish to delete these files
with `rm -r stage1'.
9. Recompile the compiler with itself, with this command:
make CC=stage1/gcc CFLAGS="-g -O -Bstage1/"
This is called making the stage 2 compiler.
On a 68000 or 68020 system lacking floating point hardware,
unless you have selected a `tm.h' file that expects by default
that there is no such hardware, do this instead:
make CC=stage1/gcc CFLAGS="-g -O -Bstage1/ -msoft-float"
10. If you wish to test the compiler by compiling it with itself one
more time, do this (in C shell):
make stage2
make CC=stage2/gcc CFLAGS="-g -O -Bstage2/"
foreach file (*.o)
cmp $file stage2/$file
end
This is called making the stage 3 compiler. Aside from the `-B'
option, the options should be the same as when you made the
stage 2 compiler.
The `foreach' command (written in C shell) will notify you if
any of these stage 3 object files differs from those of stage 2.
On BSD systems, any difference, no matter how innocuous,
indicates that the stage 2 compiler has compiled GNU CC
incorrectly, and is therefore a potentially serious bug which
you should investigate and report (*note Bugs::.).
On systems that use COFF object files, bytes 5 to 8 will always
be different, since it is a timestamp. On these systems, you
can do the comparison as follows (in Bourne shell):
for file in *.o; do
echo $file
tail +10c $file > foo1
tail +10c stage2/$file > foo2
cmp foo1 foo2
done
On MIPS machines, you should use the shell script `ecoff-cmp' to
compare two object files.
11. Install the compiler driver, the compiler's passes and run-time
support. You can use the following command:
make install
This copies the files `cc1', `cpp' and `gnulib' to files
`gcc-cc1', `gcc-cpp' and `gcc-gnulib' in directory
`/usr/local/lib', which is where the compiler driver program
looks for them. It also copies the driver program `gcc' into
the directory `/usr/local/bin', so that it appears in typical
execution search paths.
*Warning: there is a bug in `alloca' in the Sun library. To
avoid this bug, install the binaries of GNU CC that were
compiled by GNU CC. They use `alloca' as a built-in function
and never the one in the library.*
*Warning: the GNU CPP may not work for `ioctl.h', `ttychars.h'
and other system header files unless the `-traditional' option
is used.* The bug is in the header files: at least on some
machines, they rely on behavior that is incompatible with ANSI
C. This behavior consists of substituting for macro argument
names when they appear inside of character constants. The
`-traditional' option tells GNU CC to behave the way these
headers expect.
Because of this problem, you might prefer to configure GNU CC to
use the system's own C preprocessor. To do so, make the file
`/usr/local/lib/gcc-cpp' a link to `/lib/cpp'.
Alternatively, on Sun systems and 4.3BSD at least, you can
correct the include files by running the shell script
`fixincludes'. This installs modified, corrected copies of the
files `ioctl.h', `ttychars.h' and many others, in a special
directory where only GNU CC will normally look for them. This
script will work on various systems because it chooses the files
by searching all the system headers for the problem cases that
we know about.
Use the following command to do this:
make includes
If you selected a different directory for GNU CC installation
when you installed it, by specifying the Make variable `prefix'
or `libdir', specify it the same way in this command.
Note that some systems are starting to come with ANSI C system
header files. On these systems, don't run `fixincludes'; it may
not work, and is certainly not necessary.
If you cannot install the compiler's passes and run-time support in
`/usr/local/lib', you can alternatively use the `-B' option to
specify a prefix by which they may be found. The compiler
concatenates the prefix with the names `cpp', `cc1' and `gnulib'.
Thus, you can put the files in a directory `/usr/foo/gcc' and specify
`-B/usr/foo/gcc/' when you run GNU CC.
Also, you can specify an alternative default directory for these
files by setting the Make variable `libdir' when you make GNU CC.
File: gcc.info, Node: Other Dir, Next: Sun Install, Prev: Installation, Up: Installation
Compilation in a Separate Directory
===================================
If you wish to build the object files and executables in a directory
other than the one containing the source files, here is what you must
do differently:
1. Go to that directory before running `config.gcc':
mkdir gcc-sun3
cd gcc-sun3
On systems that do not support symbolic links, this directory
must be on the same file system as the source code directory.
2. Specify where to find `config.gcc' when you run it:
../gcc-1.36/config.gcc ...
3. Specify where to find the sources, as an argument to `config.gcc':
../gcc-1.36/config.gcc -srcdir=../gcc-1.36 sun3
The `-srcdir=DIR' option is not needed when the source directory
is the parent of the current directory, because `config.gcc'
detects that case automatically.
Now, you can run `make' in that directory. You need not repeat the
configuration steps shown above, when ordinary source files change.
You must, however, run `config.gcc' again when the configuration
files change, if your system does not support symbolic links.
File: gcc.info, Node: Sun Install, Next: 3b1 Install, Prev: Other Dir, Up: Installation
Installing GNU CC on the Sun
============================
Make sure the environment variable `FLOAT_OPTION' is not set when you
compile `gnulib'. If this option were set to `f68881' when `gnulib'
is compiled, the resulting code would demand to be linked with a
special startup file and would not link properly without special
pains.
There is a bug in `alloca' in certain versions of the Sun library.
To avoid this bug, install the binaries of GNU CC that were compiled
by GNU CC. They use `alloca' as a built-in function and never the
one in the library.
Some versions of the Sun compiler crash when compiling GNU CC, with a
segmentation fault in cpp. This can sometimes be due to the bulk of
data in the environment variables. You may be able to avoid it by
using the following command to compile GNU CC with Sun CC:
make CC="TERMCAP=x OBJS=x LIBFUNCS=x STAGESTUFF=x cc"
Another problem that often happens on Suns is that you get a crash
when building stage 2, when `genflags' is run.
One reason for such as crash is if you configured GNU CC for the
wrong version of SunOS. Starting with version 1.38, configurations
`sun3' and `sun4' are for SunOS 4, so this problem should no longer
happen.
Another cause of the same symptom is having installed the GNU linker
with an earlier version of SunOS. The version that worked before
stopped working due to a change in the format of executables in SunOS
4.1. Many sites have installed the GNU linker as
`/usr/local/lib/gcc-ld', often as part of installing GNU C++. So if
you get such crashes and you have used the proper configuration, try
deleting `/usr/local/lib/gcc-ld'.
The current version of the GNU linker, found in the current binutils
release, does work with SunOS 4.1.
File: gcc.info, Node: 3b1 Install, Next: SCO Install, Prev: Sun Install, Up: Installation
Installing GNU CC on the 3b1
============================
Installing GNU CC on the 3b1 is difficult if you do not already have
GNU CC running, due to bugs in the installed C compiler. However,
the following procedure might work. We are unable to test it.
1. Comment out the `#include "config.h"' line on line 37 of
`cccp.c' and do `make cpp'. This makes a preliminary version of
GNU cpp.
2. Save the old `/lib/cpp' and copy the preliminary GNU cpp to that
file name.
3. Undo your change in `cccp.c', or reinstall the original version,
and do `make cpp' again.
4. Copy this final version of GNU cpp into `/lib/cpp'.
5. Replace every occurrence of `obstack_free' in `tree.c' with
`_obstack_free'.
6. Run `make' to get the first-stage GNU CC.
7. Reinstall the original version of `/lib/cpp'.
8. Now you can compile GNU CC with itself and install it in the
normal fashion.
If you have installed an earlier version of GCC, you can compile the
newer version with that. However, you will run into trouble
compiling `gnulib', since that is normally compiled with CC. To
solve the problem, uncomment this line in `Makefile':
CCLIBFLAGS = -B/usr/local/lib/gcc- -tp -Wp,-traditional
File: gcc.info, Node: SCO Install, Next: VMS Install, Prev: 3B1 Install, Up: Installation
Installing GNU CC on SCO System V 3.2
=====================================
The compiler that comes with this system does not work properly with
`-O'. Therefore, you should redefine the Make variable `CCLIBFLAGS'
not to use `-O'.
You should also edit `Makefile' to enable the lines that set `CLIB'
to `-lPW', and the ones specifically labeled as being for SCO, that
set `RANLIB', and that set `CC' and `OLDCC' to `rcc'.
Also, edit the definition of `USER_H' to remove the file `limits.h'.
Then you can run `config.gcc i386-sco' and finish building GNU CC
normally.
The same recipe should work on ESIX, but use `config.gcc i386-esix'
instead.
File: gcc.info, Node: VMS Install, Next: HPUX Install, Prev: SCO Install, Up: Installation
Installing GNU CC on VMS
========================
The VMS version of GNU CC is distributed in a backup saveset
containing both source code and precompiled binaries.
To install the `gcc' command so you can use the compiler easily, in
the same manner as you use the VMS C compiler, you must install the
VMS CLD file for GNU CC as follows:
1. Define the VMS logical names `GNU_CC' and `GNU_CC_INCLUDE' to
point to the directories where the GNU CC executables
(`gcc-cpp', `gcc-cc1', etc.) and the C include files are kept.
This should be done with the commands:
$ assign /super /system disk:[gcc.] gnu_cc
$ assign /super /system disk:[gcc.include.] gnu_cc_include
with the appropriate disk and directory names. These commands
can be placed in your system startup file so they will be
executed whenever the machine is rebooted. You may, if you
choose, do this via the `GCC_INSTALL.COM' script in the `[GCC]'
directory.
2. Install the `GCC' command with the command line:
$ set command /table=sys$library:dcltables gnu_cc:[000000]gcc
3. To install the help file, do the following:
$ lib/help sys$library:helplib.hlb gcc.hlp
Now you can invoke the compiler with a command like `gcc
/verbose file.c', which is equivalent to the command `gcc -v -c
file.c' in Unix.
We try to put corresponding binaries and sources on the VMS
distribution tape. But sometimes the binaries will be from an older
version that the sources, because we don't always have time to update
them. (Use the `/verbose' option to determine the version number of
the binaries and compare it with the source file `version.c' to tell
whether this is so.) In this case, you should use the binaries you
get to recompile the sources. If you must recompile, here is how:
1. Copy the file `tm-vms.h' to `tm.h', `xm-vms.h' to `config.h',
`vax.md' to `md.' and `out-vax.c' to `aux-output.c'. The files
to be copied are found in the subdirectory named `config'; they
should be copied to the main directory of GNU CC.
2. Setup the logical names and command tables as defined above. In
addition, define the vms logical name `GNU_BISON' to point at
the to the directories where the Bison executable is kept. This
should be done with the command:
$ assign /super /system disk:[bison.] gnu_bison
You may, if you choose, use the `INSTALL_BISON.COM' script in
the `[BISON]' directory.
3. Install the `BISON' command with the command line:
$ set command /table=sys$library:dcltables gnu_bison:[000000]bison
4. Type `@make' to do recompile everything.
If you are compiling with a version of GNU CC older than 1.33,
specify `/DEFINE=("inline=")' as an option in all the
compilations. This requires editing all the `gcc' commands in
`make-cc1.com'. (The older versions had problems supporting
`inline'.) Once you have a working 1.33 or newer GNU CC, you
can change this file back.
With this version of GNU CC, `const' global variables now work
properly. Unless, however, the `const' modifier is also specified in
every external declaration of the variable in all of the source files
that use that variable, the linker will issue warnings about
conflicting attributes for the variable, since the linker does not
know if the variable should be read-only. The program will still
work, but the variable will be placed in writable storage.
Under previous versions of GNU CC, the generated code would
occasionally give strange results when linked to the sharable
`VAXCRTL' library. Now this should work.
Even with this version, however, GNU CC itself should not be linked
to the sharable `VAXCRTL', unless you force the linker to use the
`qsort' routine from `gcclib.olb'. The `qsort' routine supplied with
`VAXCRTL' has a bug which causes a compiler crash. The executable
that is generated by `make-cc1.com' uses the non-shared version of
`VAXCRTL' (and thus the `qsort' routine from `gcclib.olb').
Note that GNU CC on VMS now generates debugging information to
describe the programs symbols to the VMS debugger. However, you need
version 1.37 or later of GAS in order to output them properly in the
object file.
File: gcc.info, Node: HPUX Install, Next: MIPS Install, Prev: VMS Install, Up: Installation
Installing GNU CC on HPUX
=========================
To install GNU CC on HPUX, you must start by editing the file
`Makefile'. Search for the string `HPUX' to find comments saying
what to change. You need to change some variable definitions and (if
you are using GAS) some lines in the rule for the target `gnulib'.
To avoid errors when linking programs with `-g', create an empty
library named `libg.a'. An easy way to do this is:
ar rc /usr/local/lib/libg.a
To compile with the HPUX C compiler, you must specify get the file
`alloca.c' from GNU Emacs. Then, when you run `make', use this
argument:
make ALLOCA=alloca.o
When recompiling GNU CC with itself, do not define `ALLOCA'.
Instead, an `-I' option needs to be added to `CFLAGS' as follows:
make CC=stage1/gcc CFLAGS="-g -O -Bstage1/ -I../binutils/hp-include"
File: gcc.info, Node: MIPS Install, Next: Tower Install, Prev: HPUX Install, Up: Installation
Installing GNU CC on MIPS
=========================
To avoid errors when linking programs with `-g', create an empty
library named `libg.a'. An easy way to do this is:
ar rc /usr/local/lib/libg.a
File: gcc.info, Node: Tower Install, Prev: MIPS Install, Up: Installation
Installing GNU CC on an NCR Tower
=================================
On an NCR Tower model 4x0 or 6x0, you may have trouble because the
default maximum virtual address size of a process is just 1 Mb. Most
often you will find this problem while compiling GNU CC with itself.
The only way to solve the problem is to reconfigure the kernel. Add
a line such as this to the configuration file:
MAXUMEM = 4096
and then relink the kernel and reboot the machine.
File: gcc.info, Node: Trouble, Next: Service, Prev: Installation, Up: Top
Known Causes of Trouble with GNU CC
***********************************
Here are some of the things that have caused trouble for people
installing or using GNU CC.
* On certain systems, defining certain environment variables such
as `CC' can interfere with the functioning of `make'.
* Cross compilation can run into trouble for certain machines
because some target machines' assemblers require floating point
numbers to be written as *integer* constants in certain contexts.
The compiler writes these integer constants by examining the
floating point value as an integer and printing that integer,
because this is simple to write and independent of the details
of the floating point representation. But this does not work if
the compiler is running on a different machine with an
incompatible floating point format, or even a different
byte-ordering.
In addition, correct constant folding of floating point values
requires representing them in the target machine's format. (The
C standard does not quite require this, but in practice it is
the only way to win.)
It is now possible to overcome these problems by defining macros
such as `REAL_VALUE_TYPE'. But doing so is a substantial amount
of work for each target machine. *Note Cross-compilation::.
* DBX rejects some files produced by GNU CC, though it accepts
similar constructs in output from PCC. Until someone can supply
a coherent description of what is valid DBX input and what is
not, there is nothing I can do about these problems. You are on
your own.
* Users often think it is a bug when GNU CC reports an error for
code like this:
int foo (short);
int foo (x)
short x;
{...}
The error message is correct: this code really is erroneous,
because the old-style non-prototype definition passes subword
integers in their promoted types. In other words, the argument
is really an `int', not a `short'. The correct prototype is this:
int foo (int);
* Users often think it is a bug when GNU CC reports an error for
code like this:
int foo (struct mumble *);
struct mumble { ... };
int foo (struct mumble *x)
{ ... }
This code really is erroneous, because the scope of `struct
mumble' the prototype is limited to the argument list containing
it. It does not refer to the `struct mumble' defined with file
scope immediately below--they are two unrelated types with
similar names in different scopes.
But in the definition of `foo', the file-scope type is used
because that is available to be inherited. Thus, the definition
and the prototype do not match, and you get an error.
This behavior may seem silly, but it's what the ANSI standard
specifies. It is easy enough for you to make your code work by
moving the definition of `struct mumble' above the prototype. I
don't think it's worth being incompatible for.
File: gcc.info, Node: Service, Next: Incompatibilities, Prev: Trouble, Up: Top
How To Get Help with GNU CC
***************************
If you need help installing, using or changing GNU CC, there are two
ways to find it:
* Send a message to a suitable network mailing list. First try
`bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu', and if that brings no response, try
`info-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu'.
* Look in the service directory for someone who might help you for
a fee. The service directory is found in the file named
`SERVICE' in the GNU CC distribution.
File: gcc.info, Node: Incompatibilities, Next: Extensions, Prev: Service, Up: Top
Incompatibilities of GNU CC
***************************
There are several noteworthy incompatibilities between GNU C and most
existing (non-ANSI) versions of C. The `-traditional' option
eliminates most of these incompatibilities, *but not all*, by telling
GNU C to behave like older C compilers.
* GNU CC normally makes string constants read-only. If several
identical-looking string constants are used, GNU CC stores only
one copy of the string.
One consequence is that you cannot call `mktemp' with a string
constant argument. The function `mktemp' always alters the
string its argument points to.
Another consequence is that `sscanf' does not work on some
systems when passed a string constant as its format control
string. This is because `sscanf' incorrectly tries to write
into the string constant. Likewise `fscanf' and `scanf'.
The best solution to these problems is to change the program to
use `char'-array variables with initialization strings for these
purposes instead of string constants. But if this is not
possible, you can use the `-fwritable-strings' flag, which
directs GNU CC to handle string constants the same way most C
compilers do. `-traditional' also has this effect, among others.
* GNU CC does not substitute macro arguments when they appear
inside of string constants. For example, the following macro in
GNU CC
#define foo(a) "a"
will produce output `"a"' regardless of what the argument A is.
The `-traditional' option directs GNU CC to handle such cases
(among others) in the old-fashioned (non-ANSI) fashion.
* When you use `setjmp' and `longjmp', the only automatic
variables guaranteed to remain valid are those declared
`volatile'. This is a consequence of automatic register
allocation. Consider this function:
jmp_buf j;
foo ()
{
int a, b;
a = fun1 ();
if (setjmp (j))
return a;
a = fun2 ();
/* `longjmp (j)' may be occur in `fun3'. */
return a + fun3 ();
}
Here `a' may or may not be restored to its first value when the
`longjmp' occurs. If `a' is allocated in a register, then its
first value is restored; otherwise, it keeps the last value
stored in it.
If you use the `-W' option with the `-O' option, you will get a
warning when GNU CC thinks such a problem might be possible.
The `-traditional' option directs GNU C to put variables in the
stack by default, rather than in registers, in functions that
call `setjmp'. This results in the behavior found in
traditional C compilers.
* Declarations of external variables and functions within a block
apply only to the block containing the declaration. In other
words, they have the same scope as any other declaration in the
same place.
In some other C compilers, a `extern' declaration affects all
the rest of the file even if it happens within a block.
The `-traditional' option directs GNU C to treat all `extern'
declarations as global, like traditional compilers.
* In traditional C, you can combine `long', etc., with a typedef
name, as shown here:
typedef int foo;
typedef long foo bar;
In ANSI C, this is not allowed: `long' and other type modifiers
require an explicit `int'. Because this criterion is expressed
by Bison grammar rules rather than C code, the `-traditional'
flag cannot alter it.
* PCC allows typedef names to be used as function parameters. The
difficulty described immediately above applies here too.
* PCC allows whitespace in the middle of compound assignment
operators such as `+='. GNU CC, following the ANSI standard,
does not allow this. The difficulty described immediately above
applies here too.
* GNU CC will flag unterminated character constants inside of
preprocessor conditionals that fail. Some programs have English
comments enclosed in conditionals that are guaranteed to fail;
if these comments contain apostrophes, GNU CC will probably
report an error. For example, this code would produce an error:
#if 0
You can't expect this to work.
#endif
The best solution to such a problem is to put the text into an
actual C comment delimited by `/*...*/'. However,
`-traditional' suppresses these error messages.
* When compiling functions that return `float', PCC converts it to
a double. GNU CC actually returns a `float'. If you are
concerned with PCC compatibility, you should declare your
functions to return `double'; you might as well say what you mean.
* When compiling functions that return structures or unions, GNU
CC output code normally uses a method different from that used
on most versions of Unix. As a result, code compiled with GNU
CC cannot call a structure-returning function compiled with PCC,
and vice versa.
The method used by GNU CC is as follows: a structure or union
which is 1, 2, 4 or 8 bytes long is returned like a scalar. A
structure or union with any other size is stored into an address
supplied by the caller in a special, fixed register.
PCC usually handles all sizes of structures and unions by
returning the address of a block of static storage containing
the value. This method is not used in GNU CC because it is
slower and nonreentrant.
You can tell GNU CC to use the PCC convention with the option
`-fpcc-struct-return'.
* On the Sparc, GNU CC uses an incompatible calling convention for
structures. It passes them by including their contents in the
argument list, whereas the standard compiler passes them
effectively by reference.
This really ought to be fixed, but such calling conventions are
not yet supported in GNU CC, so it isn't straightforward to fix
it.
The convention for structure returning is also incompatible, and
`-fpcc-struct-return' does not help.
* On Ultrix, the Fortran compiler expects registers 2 through 5 to
be saved by function calls. We have not been able to tell
whether the C compiler agrees with the Fortran compiler.
Currently, GNU CC treats these registers as temporaries on the
Vax, which is compatible with BSD Unix.
If we learn for certain that Ultrix has departed from the
traditional BSD calling convention, we will change GNU CC for
Ultrix to fit. In the mean time, you can use these options to
produce code compatible with the Fortran compiler:
-fcall-saved-r2 -fcall-saved-r3 -fcall-saved-r4 -fcall-saved-r5
File: gcc.info, Node: Extensions, Next: Bugs, Prev: Incompatibilities, Up: Top
GNU Extensions to the C Language
********************************
GNU C provides several language features not found in ANSI standard C.
(The `-pedantic' option directs GNU CC to print a warning message if
any of these features is used.) To test for the availability of
these features in conditional compilation, check for a predefined
macro `__GNUC__', which is always defined under GNU CC.
* Menu:
* Statement Exprs:: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.
* Naming Types:: Giving a name to the type of some expression.
* Typeof:: `typeof': referring to the type of an expression.
* Lvalues:: Using `?:', `,' and casts in lvalues.
* Conditionals:: Omitting the middle operand of a `?:' expression.
* Zero-Length:: Zero-length arrays.
* Variable-Length:: Arrays whose length is computed at run time.
* Subscripting:: Any array can be subscripted, even if not an lvalue.
* Pointer Arith:: Arithmetic on `void'-pointers and function pointers.
* Initializers:: Non-constant initializers.
* Constructors:: Constructor expressions give structures, unions
or arrays as values.
* Function Attributes:: Declaring that functions have no side effects,
or that they can never return.
* Dollar Signs:: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.
* Alignment:: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.
* Inline:: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).
* Extended Asm:: Assembler instructions with C expressions as operands.
(With them you can define "built-in" functions.)
* Asm Labels:: Specifying the assembler name to use for a C symbol.
* Explicit Reg Vars:: Defining variables residing in specified registers.
* Alternate Keywords:: `__const__', `__asm__', etc., for header files.
File: gcc.info, Node: Statement Exprs, Next: Naming Types, Prev: Extensions, Up: Extensions
Statements and Declarations inside of Expressions
=================================================
A compound statement in parentheses may appear inside an expression
in GNU C. This allows you to declare variables within an expression.
For example:
({ int y = foo (); int z;
if (y > 0) z = y;
else z = - y;
z; })
is a valid (though slightly more complex than necessary) expression
for the absolute value of `foo ()'.
This feature is especially useful in making macro definitions "safe"
(so that they evaluate each operand exactly once). For example, the
"maximum" function is commonly defined as a macro in standard C as
follows:
#define max(a,b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))
But this definition computes either A or B twice, with bad results if
the operand has side effects. In GNU C, if you know the type of the
operands (here let's assume `int'), you can define the macro safely
as follows:
#define maxint(a,b) \
({int _a = (a), _b = (b); _a > _b ? _a : _b; })
Embedded statements are not allowed in constant expressions, such as
the value of an enumeration constant, the width of a bit field, or
the initial value of a static variable.
If you don't know the type of the operand, you can still do this, but
you must use `typeof' (*note Typeof::.) or type naming (*note Naming
Types::.).
File: gcc.info, Node: Naming Types, Next: Typeof, Prev: Statement Exprs, Up: Extensions
Naming an Expression's Type
===========================
You can give a name to the type of an expression using a `typedef'
declaration with an initializer. Here is how to define NAME as a
type name for the type of EXP:
typedef NAME = EXP;
This is useful in conjunction with the statements-within-expressions
feature. Here is how the two together can be used to define a safe
"maximum" macro that operates on any arithmetic type:
#define max(a,b) \
({typedef _ta = (a), _tb = (b); \
_ta _a = (a); _tb _b = (b); \
_a > _b ? _a : _b; })
The reason for using names that start with underscores for the local
variables is to avoid conflicts with variable names that occur within
the expressions that are substituted for `a' and `b'. Eventually we
hope to design a new form of declaration syntax that allows you to
declare variables whose scopes start only after their initializers;
this will be a more reliable way to prevent such conflicts.
File: gcc.info, Node: Typeof, Next: Lvalues, Prev: Naming Types, Up: Extensions
Referring to a Type with `typeof'
=================================
Another way to refer to the type of an expression is with `typeof'.
The syntax of using of this keyword looks like `sizeof', but the
construct acts semantically like a type name defined with `typedef'.
There are two ways of writing the argument to `typeof': with an
expression or with a type. Here is an example with an expression:
typeof (x[0](1))
This assumes that `x' is an array of functions; the type described is
that of the values of the functions.
Here is an example with a typename as the argument:
typeof (int *)
Here the type described is that of pointers to `int'.
If you are writing a header file that must work when included in ANSI
C programs, write `__typeof__' instead of `typeof'. *Note Alternate
Keywords::.
A `typeof'-construct can be used anywhere a typedef name could be
used. For example, you can use it in a declaration, in a cast, or
inside of `sizeof' or `typeof'.
* This declares `y' with the type of what `x' points to.
typeof (*x) y;
* This declares `y' as an array of such values.
typeof (*x) y[4];
* This declares `y' as an array of pointers to characters:
typeof (typeof (char *)[4]) y;
It is equivalent to the following traditional C declaration:
char *y[4];
To see the meaning of the declaration using `typeof', and why it
might be a useful way to write, let's rewrite it with these
macros:
#define pointer(T) typeof(T *)
#define array(T, N) typeof(T [N])
Now the declaration can be rewritten this way:
array (pointer (char), 4) y;
Thus, `array (pointer (char), 4)' is the type of arrays of 4
pointers to `char'.
File: gcc.info, Node: Lvalues, Next: Conditionals, Prev: Typeof, Up: Extensions
Generalized Lvalues
===================
Compound expressions, conditional expressions and casts are allowed
as lvalues provided their operands are lvalues. This means that you
can take their addresses or store values into them.
For example, a compound expression can be assigned, provided the last
expression in the sequence is an lvalue. These two expressions are
equivalent:
(a, b) += 5
a, (b += 5)
Similarly, the address of the compound expression can be taken.
These two expressions are equivalent:
&(a, b)
a, &b
A conditional expression is a valid lvalue if its type is not void
and the true and false branches are both valid lvalues. For example,
these two expressions are equivalent:
(a ? b : c) = 5
(a ? b = 5 : (c = 5))
A cast is a valid lvalue if its operand is valid. Taking the address
of the cast is the same as taking the address without a cast, except
for the type of the result. For example, these two expressions are
equivalent (but the second may be valid when the type of `a' does not
permit a cast to `int *').
&(int *)a
(int **)&a
A simple assignment whose left-hand side is a cast works by
converting the right-hand side first to the specified type, then to
the type of the inner left-hand side expression. After this is
stored, the value is converter back to the specified type to become
the value of the assignment. Thus, if `a' has type `char *', the
following two expressions are equivalent:
(int)a = 5
(int)(a = (char *)5)
An assignment-with-arithmetic operation such as `+=' applied to a
cast performs the arithmetic using the type resulting from the cast,
and then continues as in the previous case. Therefore, these two
expressions are equivalent:
(int)a += 5
(int)(a = (char *) ((int)a + 5))
File: gcc.info, Node: Conditionals, Next: Zero-Length, Prev: Lvalues, Up: Extensions
Conditional Expressions with Omitted Middle-Operands
====================================================
The middle operand in a conditional expression may be omitted. Then
if the first operand is nonzero, its value is the value of the
conditional expression.
Therefore, the expression
x ? : y
has the value of `x' if that is nonzero; otherwise, the value of `y'.
This example is perfectly equivalent to
x ? x : y
In this simple case, the ability to omit the middle operand is not
especially useful. When it becomes useful is when the first operand
does, or may (if it is a macro argument), contain a side effect.
Then repeating the operand in the middle would perform the side
effect twice. Omitting the middle operand uses the value already
computed without the undesirable effects of recomputing it.