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In <199204070034.AA19054@taureau.melb.bull.oz.au> sjg@melb.bull.oz.AU (Simon J Gerraty) writes:

>DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR:
>This same compiler and library compile groff ok on sun386 and
>sun4c.  On the Bull DPX/2, then name proc in struct comment_info
>appears to conflict with _something_ in one of the system header
>files - though I was unable to track it down.  The compilation
>of ps/psrm.c fails with initialization between incompatible
>pointer types.


>SUGGESTED FIX:
>this patch changes the name from proc to pmf

Forget it.  It turns out the problem is that one of the system
headers  contains a struct declaration like:

struct foo
{
  struct proc *pfoo;
} ;

This seems to polute the name space, causing the struct
comment_info in ps/psrm.c to lose its proc member!
I don't know whether this is a gcc bug or a C++ feature, but if
it is a feature of C++ then it seems it would be nearly
impossible to write portable code.
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