hello,
i've managed to get blackbox to build using MIPSpro on my Octane. this is very
very good, since MIPSpro generates binaries that kick gcc generated binaries
all over the place. :)
anyway, it turned out to be a lot easier than i thought it was going to be.
edit config.h and define STDC_HEADERS, and then there is this interesting
other issue, which is why i'm writing here.
MIPSpro does not honor the C++ thing where variable scope is kept withing a
for loop (for example) and so in the instance where the same variable name was
used twice in the same function within seperate scope, i had to change one to
be different so that MIPSpro could cope.
would i be asking too terribly much to ask that the the variable scope rules
meet that of plain old C so that blackbox will cleanly build on SGI kit using
MIPSpro as the compiler?
there were only, i think maybe 4 or 5 instances of this happening, so it's not
a terribly huge undertaking, and would help out tremendously thouse of us who
like to use MIPSpro.
thanks!!!
-brian
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