[UIMA-2361] UIMA C++ fails to build with gcc 4.5.2

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0C
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0C
• Component/s: C++ Framework

Environment

Ubuntu 11.04

• Assignee: Bhavani Iyer
• Reporter: Bhavani Iyer
• Created: 31/Jan/12 19:43
• Updated: 20/Nov/12 22:05
• Resolved: 20/Nov/12 22:05

Description

Reported by Jean-Cedric Chappelier

I just tested the very last version (2.4.0.03 from Jan 25th,
downloaded from here:
http://people.apache.org/~bhavani/uimacpp-release-candidates/2.4.0/03/uimacpp-2.4.0-src.tgz
), and have a few remarks, hopefully helpful.

I tested it on a Ubuntu 11.04 with all up-to-date packages but
without ActiveMQ.
....

2) secondly, there is a bug in handling properly Xerces XMLFileLoc
type in UIMA exceptions, more precisely in ErrorMessage::addParam.

XMLFileLoc is indeed an uint64_t
(grep XMLFileLoc /usr/include/xercesc/util/Xerces_autoconf_config.hpp)
for which ErrorMessage has no good addParam method (ambiguous casting).
My g++ 4.5.2 complains about this and refuses to go ahead.

I hereby attach a proposed patch (exceptions.patch) for both
exceptions.cpp and exceptions.hpp

BTW, may I recommend you to add a template ErrorMessage::addParam?
This would avoid this kind of problems.