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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Another C compiler bug?
Summary: Yes. Known bug.
Message-ID: <64432@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 18 Jul 90 15:50:28 GMT
References: <5193@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <5193@castle.ed.ac.uk>, sjin@castle.ed.ac.uk (S.Jin) writes:
> Is it a bug or not? I can compile the piece of program below successfully 
> on Sun 3/60(4.0_Export), HP900/825(7.00). But I failed to do that on 4D 20 
> under IRIX 3.2.
[stuff deleted]
> struct Alist_Entry 
>     { 
>     void *slot; 
>     } ;
> ccom: Error: foo.c, line 8: slot undefined
>         *( (int *) (ap->slot) ) = 11;
[stuff deleted]
> Is it a bug? Any comments are welcome.

Another posting (name not mentioned here) suggested user error. 

To correct any misunderstanding this may cause:
This is a compiler bug.  void, void * work in 3.3 cc but *not* in 3.2.

Regards,
[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea@sgi.com ]
[``What can go wrong?''                          --Calvin and Hobbes]