[STDCXX-572] [gcc 4/Mac OS X] localedef error on macro tolower

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4
• Fix Version/s: 4.2.0
• Component/s: Utilities
• Severity: Compiler Error
• Assignee: Martin Sebor
• Reporter: Martin Sebor
• Created: 27/Sep/07 01:06
• Updated: 27/Sep/07 01:31
• Resolved: 27/Sep/07 01:31

Description

The localedef (and locale) utilities fail to compile with gcc 4 on Mac OS X in optimized mode with the error below:

$ nice make BUILDTYPE=12d BUILDDIR=/build/sebor/stdcxx-gcc-4.0.1-12d
GNUmakefile:309: "CONFIG not specified, using gcc.config"
creating BUILDDIR=/build/sebor/stdcxx-gcc-4.0.1-12d
generating /build/sebor/stdcxx-gcc-4.0.1-12d/makefile.in from /Users/sebor/stdcxx/etc/config/gcc.config
make config

configuring stdcxx 4.2.0 for gcc-4.0.1 on darwin-8.7.1-i386

checking if the compiler is sane ok (invoked with gcc)
checking if the linker is sane ok (invoked with gcc)
checking system architecture ILP32 little endian
...
gcc -c -I/Users/sebor/stdcxx/include/ansi -I/Users/sebor/stdcxx/include -I/build/sebor/stdcxx-gcc-4.0.1-12d/include -pedantic -nostdinc++ -O2 -W -Wall -Wcast-qual -Winline -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long -Wcast-align /Users/sebor/stdcxx/util/aliases.cpp
/Users/sebor/stdcxx/util/aliases.cpp:352:46: error: macro "tolower" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1
/Users/sebor/stdcxx/util/aliases.cpp:353:46: error: macro "tolower" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1
/Users/sebor/stdcxx/util/aliases.cpp: In function 'int ci_pre_compare(const std::string&, const std::string&)':
/Users/sebor/stdcxx/util/aliases.cpp:353: error: invalid operands of types '<unknown type>' and '<unknown type>' to binary 'operator!='
make[2]: *** [aliases.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [util] Error 2
make: *** [libstd] Error 2