Re: [xml] libxml 2.0 on HP-UX

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 07:55:58 EDT

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 06:08:11PM -0500, John Kroll wrote:
>
> 1. libxml 2.0 does not compile with HP-UX's optional ANSI-C compiler under
> HP-UX 11.00 due to macro limitations. While this has been discussed in the
> newsgroup threads, the solution of compiling with gcc is not an option for
> me.
>
> 2. Therefore the enclosed proposed fix replaces the macros with function
> calls that perform a lookup equating to the original macro call. Note that
> under Sun 5.6 (the only OS I have access to that compiles the macro
> version), the resulting debug ("-g") versions of the libraries are about
> 116K smaller with the proposed changes.
>
> 3. The proposed fix has been compiled under HP-UX 11.00, AIX 4.3.2, and Sun
> 5.6.
>
> Sincerely,
> John Kroll
>
> P.S. Note the initialization code for the fix was programmatically
> generated and verified using a test program.

  Thanks a lot for your patch, however I already worked in
that area since libxml-2.0.0 was released. I suggest you
get the CVS version or the CVS tar.gz snapshot:
  http://xmlsoft.org/#Downloads

 and recheck. I will also have a look ASAP on your patch,

Daniel 

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