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From: little@odin.ucsd.edu (Glenn Little)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: can't compile bibtex.c
Message-ID: <17229@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 22:56:56 GMT
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Organization: CSE Dept., UC San Diego
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  I am trying to bring up the unix TeX3.1 package.  I am having trouble
  compiling bibtex.c.  The c file that gets generated has a bunch of
  problems that are essentially like this (after boiling down, expanding 
  macros, etc.):

  ---------------------------------
  int dummy_func();

  typedef char arraytype[5];

  some_function (buf)
  arraytype buf;
  {
    dummy_func ((arraytype) ( buf ));
  }
  ---------------------------------

  gcc complains about "conversion to non-scalar type requested" for
  each of these situations.  cc has a similar complaint "illegal lvalue
  operand of assignment operator".  It looks like the problem is with
  the "arraytype" cast in the function call.  Has anyone else seen this
  problem and if so, do you have any ideas for a fix?  (Other than
  hand-fixing the bibtex.c file... since it's auto-generated, that seems
  like a waste of effort.)

  Thanks a lot.

		Glenn Little
		glittle@ucsd.edu
		little%cs@ucsd.edu