[GCC-XML] GCCXML and sigc++ 2.0.18

[Julian Bunn]

Thanks Brad: this is very useful. I will check to see that I have the 
correct sigc++ configuration in
my set up before worrying the authors: it's possible I have 
inadvertently used the wrong flags.

Julian

Brad King wrote:
> Julian Bunn wrote:
>> I am having trouble with GCCXML (0.9.0) parsing slot.h in version 
>> 2.0.18 of
>> sigc++. I'm not quite sure how to tackle this, or what the problem is.
>>
>> I'm not even sure if I should be asking here :-)
>>
>> Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
>>
>> $ "J:/gccxml/bin/bin/debug\gccxml.exe"  
>> "../libsigc++-2.0.18/sigc++/signal.h" -fxml=signal.xml
>> In file included from ../libsigc++-2.0.18/sigc++/signal_base.h:28,
>>                  from ../libsigc++-2.0.18/sigc++/signal.h:8:
>> ../libsigc++-2.0.18/sigc++/functors/slot.h: In static member function 
>> 'static T_return sigc::internal::slot_call1<T_functor, T_retur
>> n, T_arg1>::call_it(sigc::internal::slot_rep*, typename 
>> sigc::type_trait<T_arg3>::take)':
>> ../libsigc++-2.0.18/sigc++/functors/slot.h:136: error: expected `(' 
>> before '>' token
>
> It looks like that line has a macro that is defined with various 
> compiler work-arounds.  Which definition of the macro gets used is 
> determined at preprocessing time.  Since gccxml pretends to be the 
> native compiler at preprocessing time the package is selecting the 
> wrong options.  The fix is to teach the code (libsigc++) about gccxml 
> as if it were another compiler.  It can recognize gccxml using the 
> "__GCCXML__" preprocessor symbol.  The Boost C++ project has already 
> done this and is gccxml-aware.
>
> I just took a quick look at the libsigc++ source.  It looks like they 
> do a configure-time check for this compiler feature and then hard-code 
> the configured sigc++config.h header with the answer.  Something in 
> there will have to change to recognize gccxml at preprocessing time 
> even when the header has been configured with another compiler.  
> You'll have to bring this up with the authors of libsigc++.
>
> -Brad
>