[GRASS-dev] [bug #5002] (grass) lib/gis/color_str.c does not compile

[Glynn Clements]

Request Tracker wrote:

> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=5002
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> Subject: lib/gis/color_str.c does not compile
> 
> Platform: Solaris2.x/Sparc
> grass obtained from: CVS
> grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
> GRASS Version: cvs checkout 20060814
> 
> When compiling with Sun C 5.5 2003/03/12 the following error is reported from file color_str.c in lib/gis/:
> 
> "color_str.c", line 54: zero or negative subscript
> "color_str.c", line 57: warning: syntax error:  empty initializer
> "color_str.c", line 112: warning: statement not reached
> cc: acomp failed for color_str.c
> 
> A workaround is to change row 46:
> #define NUM_COLORS 1
> 
> and to uncomment line 56 to have one value in the table:
> {"purple",  128,   0, 255}
> 
> It seems that a static construct without explicit initialization is not legal, at least in this compilers opinion.

Zero-size arrays aren't legal C; they're a gcc extension.

It appears that the code in question was left in as "documentation" of
the previous behaviour.

Fixed in CVS.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>