On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, John Marshall wrote: > > its a bug in the header files.. but, not much > > you can do about sony/palm/etc using enumerations now is there? > > Certainly there is. Palm no longer uses enumeration constants in > SYS_TRAP-style macros. This has been the case for GCC since the 3.5 SDK, > i.e, for about 18 months. Eventually the other purveyors of SDKs will > correct their header files too, especially if we make them aware of the > problem.
shout at sony/others then :) > > so, maybe its time > > to work around other peoples problems and support enumerations > > (yes, i know its a pain in backside to implement). > > Which part of "not possible" did you not understand? :-) :) could do it i bet :) pass it through pre-processor twice :) (not that i recommend it) > > and, think of this.. even though you may write a fix, people will > > still use prc-tools 2.0, cause thats what is listed on palm.com > > Indeed, and that is a more interesting question. > > Perhaps someone from Palm can explain how it aids new developers for > http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/tools/gcc/ still to contain prc-tools 2.0, > which is approximately two years old, buggy, and superseded by the current > versions at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/ . good question :) as we discussed before, it'll be nice to direct the newbies to the sourceforge page.. sure, it aint so "windows" ish to install.. but, its the latest and greatest.. as for us oldies.. well, we installed 2.0 :) i remember the transition from 0.5.0 to 2.0 was not easy either.. all that un-installing etc.. mess.. i'll install 2.0.90 when i reformat (which, will be soon). *fun fun windows* its not good to have new users use old versions.. the same questions come back all the time, most of which have been fixed in the latest version(s) can we agree on something today john? :) // az [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ardiri.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
