Sometimes working with an old c compiler brings up painful, yet fun-filled days of making it speak the same language as you, and sometimes you just go “*$&%*$#&% you piece of sh** compiler”
I had one such moment today, and after I had returned to Zen (some soul-searching and some google searching), I realized it quite simple.
$ gmake
...
...
some_file.h:42: badly punctuated parameter list in `#define'
some_file.h:64: badly punctuated parameter list in `#define'
Failed to compile
$
This was caused by the following:
file: some_file.h
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...
...
#define LOG(...) {\ printf (##__VA_ARGS__); \
}
...
...
This works in most modern C compilers. However, if you happen to use one from the 80s (I exaggerate a little – not by much), it throws the error as above. You can fix this as follows:
file: some_file.h
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...
...
#define LOG(ARGS...) {\ printf (##ARGS); \
}
...
...
Source : http://nixscripts.blogspot.com/2010/09/badly-punctuated-parameter-list.html
