(Sorry for the delay, just back from vacation).

I don't have access to that version of gcc on Solaris to test. However, 
if you find a preprocessor workaround that works for you, I'm happy to 
test it on Linux/Mac/Windows and commit.

Cheers,
Mike

Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On solaris with gcc-4.3.1, the macro __cplusplus is not defined to
> 199711L. This is a long-standing issue with solaris. This doesn't much
> matter on some platforms, but for matplotlib, what is happening to me
> is that through a series of defines and conditionals, the method
> putchar, as used here:
>
> ./ttconv/ttutil.cpp:void TTStreamWriter::putchar(int val)
>
> gets tokenized by the preprocessor into putc by
> /usr/include/iso/stdio_iso.h, here on line 350:
>
> #define putchar(x)      putc((x), stdout)
>
> This only happens if __cplusplus is < 199711L. I'm avoiding this by
> building using the studio C compiler, but I thought I'd mention this
> in case it's possible to detect this during the configuration stage,
> and perhaps wrap with something like:
>
> #ifdef
> #if  __cplusplus <= 199711L
> #undef putchar
> #endif
> #endif
>
> However, I haven't tested this yet. Has anyone else thought about
> this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Peter
>
>
>
>
>   

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA


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