Eclipse cdt is not giving enough information for error - c++

YYSTYPE yyvsa[YYINITDEPTH];
YYSTYPE *yyvs = yyvsa;
register YYSTYPE *yyvsp;
For the code above,it just reports:
Description Resource Path Location Type
syntax error before "yyvsa" yysphinxexpr.c /sp/src line 852 C/C++ Problem
Which is far from useful,is it for configuration reasons?

That fragment looks reasonable. Whenever I run into an error message that doesn't make sense, I try to narrow it down using a process like the following:
Verify that I can reproduce the error with as few dependencies as possible (e.g. removing unnecessary classes, includes, etc.)
Compiling the file manually and seeing if the error is the same or is being interpreted before being displayed
Preprocessing the file and then manually examining. Sometimes macros will stomp on themselves or do things you don't expect. If you can preprocess the file (e.g. gcc -E [opts] filename) you'll see what the compiler is ultimately processing, which may help.
Trying with a different compiler. Sometimes a different compiler will produce an error message that makes more sense to you... or you'll find out that somebody did something that's only permitted by certain compilers.

Related

internal compiler error: in decode_addr_const, at varasm.c:2632

When I compile a project using cross compiler,I come across the following error:
internal compiler error: in decode_addr_const, at varasm.c:2632
Where can I find the varasm.c file?I searched the project directory and cross compiler directory,but I didn't find it.
Thanks for helpping,Light
The compiler maker has that file, and probably won't give it to you.
But as it seems to be an error in the compiler, you can either contact them / file a bug report, or try to avoid the error by changing your code a bit (which is a guessing game, as you don't know how you made it run into the error). Or use another compiler, if there are choices.

C4714 as an error in CLI project, Release only

I have a __forceinline function that cannot be inlined when compiled as CLI (probably due to the specific restrictions to inlining that apply with .NET).
In debug, it is a warning and does not prevent me from building. But in release, it comes up as an error:
error C4714: function '...' marked as __forceinline not inlined
In the project configuration, Treat Warnings As Errors is set to No (/WX-), Treat Specific Warnings As Errors is empty (no value and no inherited value) and there is no /We option in the Command Line of the C/C++ section.
Thus, I don't understand why this warning comes up as an error.
And as it is an error it prevents me from building the project in release.
Do you have any clue on why this comes up as an error?
Any idea of how I could get rid of it, considering I cannot change the function nor its use (it comes from a library I'm using and I'd like not to alter)?
Thank you very much!

GCC- Invalid use of Register

I am compiling a project under VS2012 and GCC (CodeBlocks) for Windows.
On VS2012 everything works perfect. Under GCC I am obtaining the following compiling error:
C:\Users\Piotrek\AppData\Local\Temp\ccfdl0Ye.s|164|Error: invalid use of register|
C:\Users\Piotrek\AppData\Local\Temp\ccfdl0Ye.s|166|Error: invalid use of register|
C:\Users\Piotrek\AppData\Local\Temp\ccfdl0Ye.s|221|Error: invalid use of register|
||=== Build finished: 3 errors, 14 warnings (0 minutes, 0 seconds) ===|
I am using the compiler option -fpermissive - It should have nothing to do with the error.
I just can't understand why is it pointing to a temporary file under the Local Temp folder, and saying that I am using a wrong register??
Does anybody have any idea on what's happening?
It looks like you've encountered a bug in the compiler. The
error messages (judging from the "source" file name) are from
the assembler. The only time the assembler should generate an
error message is when there is something illegal in the
assembler, and the C++ compiler should never generate illegal
assembler; if it can't generate legal assembler, it should
output an error message and fail.
The real problem, when you get this sort of message, is to
figure out what in your code is triggering it. g++ has an
option which tells it to not delete any of the intermediate
files. Use this, then try and see what is going on in the
assember files at these lines. (When you ask g++ to output
assembler, it puts nice comments in to help finding the
corresponding source. I don't know if it also does this when
generating assembler as an intermediate file.) And then try
cutting code (if worse comes to worse, using binary search)
until you can get the error for a program of one or two lines.
Try to guess what's special about them, and change them to do
the same thing, in a different way.
And don't fail to report the error to g++.
Thanks to James Kanze's recommendation, I decided to tell to the compiler not to delete temporary files. This is done by the flag:
-save-temps
As James said, the assembler generates some nice comments which inform exactly which line on our C++ code is throwing the error. In my case, it looks like it is not accepting such instruction:
asm
(
".intel_syntax noprefix\n"
"lock dec [DWORD PTR eax]\n"
".att_syntax \n"
:
: "a" (data)
:
);
I don't know why he is not accepting Intel Syntax anymore, since it was working with previous GCC version, and now that I updated it it doesn't anymore.
Anyway, the solution for such problems is the one mentioned by James: Just dont delete intermediate files so that you can spy directly into Assembly code what's wrong.
About the problem of the INTEL syntax, any idea why it doesn't work anymore?

How should I use g++'s -finput-charset compiler option correctly in order to compile a non-UTF-8 source file?

I'm trying to compile a UTF-16BE C++ source file in g++ with -finput-charset compiler option but I'm always getting a bunch of errors. More details follow.
My environment(in CentOS Linux):
g++: 4.1.2
iconv: 2.5
Linux language(in Terminal): LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
My sample source file(stored in UTF-16BE encoding):
// main.cpp:
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello, UTF-16" << std::endl;
return 0;
}
My steps:
I read the manual of g++ about the -finput-charset option. The g++ manual says:
-finput-charset=charset
Set the input character set, used for translation from the character set of the input file to the source character set used by
GCC. If the locale does not specify, or GCC cannot get this
information from the locale, the default is UTF-8. This can be
overridden by either the locale or this command line option.
Currently the command line option takes precedence if there’s a
conflict. charset can be any encoding supported by the system’s
"iconv" library routine.
Thus I entered the command as follows:
g++ -finput-charset=UTF-16BE main.cpp
and I got these errors:
In file included from main.cpp:1:
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../include/c++/4.1.2/iostream:1:
error: stray ‘\342’ in program
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../include/c++/4.1.2/iostream:1:
error: stray ‘\274’ in program
...(repeatedly, A LOT, around 4000+)...
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../include/c++/4.1.2/iostream:1:
error: stray ‘\257’ in program
main.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
main.cpp:5: error: ‘cout’ is not a member of ‘std’
main.cpp:5: error: ‘endl’ is not a member of ‘std’
The manual text suggests that the charset can be any encoding supported by 'iconv' routine, thus I guessed the compilation errors might be caused by my iconv library. I then tested the iconv:
iconv --from-code=UTF-16BE --to-code=UTF-8 --output=main_utf8.cpp main.cpp
A "main_utf8.cpp" file is generated as expected. I then tried to compile it:
g++ -finput-charset=UTF-8 main_utf8.cpp
Note that I specified the input-charset explicitly to see if I did anything wrong, but this time a "a.out" was generated without any errors. When I ran it, it could produce the correct output.
Finally...
I couldn't figure out where I did wrong. I searched in the web trying to find out some examples for this compiler option but I couldn't.
Please advise! Thanks!
Further edits:
Thanks, guys! Your replies are quick! Some updates:
When I said "UTF-16" I meant "UTF-16 + BOM". In fact I used UTF-16BE. I have updated the text above.
Some answers say the errors are caused by the non-UTF-16 header files. Here are my thoughts if this is the case: We'll always include some standard header files when writing a C/C++ project, right? Such as stdio.h or iostream. If the G++ compiler only deals with the encoding of the source files created by us but never with the source files in the standard library, then what does this -finput-charset option exist for??
Final edit:
At last, my solution is like this:
At the beginning, I changed the encoding of my source files to GB2312, as "Mr Lister" said below. This worked fine for a while, but later I found it not suitable for my situation because most of the other parts in the system still use UTF-8 for communication and interfaces, thus I must convert the encoding in many places... Not only an overhead of my work, it may also result in some performance decrease in my program.
Later I tried to convert all my source files to UTF-8 + BOM. In this way, Visual Studio in Windows could compile them happily but GCC in Linux would complain. I then wrote a shell script to remove the BOM, and before I want to compile my code with GCC, I run this script first.
Luckily, I don't have to build the code in Linux manually because TeamCity the continuous integration tool is used in my project to generate the build automatically. I could change the build steps in TeamCity to help me run this script before the daily build starts.
With this UTF-8 + BOM + script method, I decide not to edit my source code in Linux, because if I want to do so, I must make sure my code could build successfully before I commit it, which means I must run the script to remove the BOM before I build the code, which means SVN would report EVERY file is modified(BOM removed) thus make it very easy to mistakenly commit a wrong file. To solve this problem, I wrote another shell script to add the BOM back to the source files. Though I still don't edit my code very often in Linux, but when I really need to, I don't have to face the terribly long change list in the commit dialog.
Encoding Blues
You cannot use UTF-16 for source code files; because the header you are including, <iostream>, is not UTF-16-encoded. As #include includes the files verbatim, this means that you suddenly have an UTF-16-encoded file with a large chunk (approximately 4k, apparently) of invalid data.
There is almost no good reason to ever use UTF-16 for anything, so this is just as well.
Edit: Regarding problems with encoding support: The OSes themselves are not responsible for providing encoding support, this comes down to the compilers used.
g++ on Windows supports absolutely all of the same encodings as g++ on Linux, because it's the same program, unless whatever version of g++ you are using on Windows relies on a deeply broken iconv library.
Inspect your toolchain and ensure that all your tools are in working order.
As an alternative; don't use Chinese in the source files, but write them in English, using English-language literals, or simple TOKEN_STYLE_PLACEHOLDERs, using l10n and i18n to replace these in the running executable.
Threedit: -finput-charset is almost certainly a holdover from the days of codepages and other nonsense of the kind; however; an ISO-8859-n file will almost always be compatible with UTF-8 standard headers, however, see the reedit below.
Reedit: For next time; remember a simple mantra: "N'DUUH!"; "Never Don't Use UTF-8!"
I18N
A common solution to this kind of problem is to remove the problem entirely, by way of, for instance, gettext.
When using gettext, you usually end up with a function loc(char *) that abstracts away most of the translation tool specific code. So, instead of
#include <iostream>
int main () {
std::cout << "瓜田李下" << std::endl;
}
you would have
#include <iostream>
#include "translation.h"
int main () {
std::cout << loc("DEEPER_MEANING") << std::endl;
}
and, in zh.po:
msgid DEEPER_MEANING
msgstr "瓜田李下"
Of course, you could also then have a en.po:
msgid DEEPER_MEANING
msgstr "Still waters run deep"
This can be expanded upon, and the gettext package has tools for expansion of strings with variables and such, or you could use printf, to account for different grammars.
The Third Option
Instead of having to deal with multiple compilers with different requirements for file encodings, file endings, byte order marks, and other problems of the kind; it is possible to cross-compile using MinGW or similar tools.
This option requires some setup, but may very well reduce future overhead and headaches.
The error message says the problem is in the include files, so I presume what happens is that the include files are normal UTF-8, but the compiler wants to treat them as UTF-16 because of the compiler switch.
So I'm afraid the solution is to always convert the source to UTF-8 first; perhaps in the makefile. Or to find a solution that doesn't contain include files in other encodings...
Edit:
Maybe a GB encoding would work, if and only if none of the system source files contain any non-ASCII characters. Then you could tell the compiler they were GB encoded without problem.
This does not work because the compiler will also try to read the header files as UTF-16, which they are not.
UTF-16 is not an encoding for bytes. It's an encoding where your basic storage unit is 16 bits large.
When you want to store UTF-16 in a byte sequence you have to choose between UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE.

How to repair Visual Studio locals/watches in C++ (Debug build)

Sometimes VS autos/locals/watches break and instead of variables/values all I have is different kinds of:
CXX0029: Error: not struct pointer
CXX0033: Error: error in OMF type information
CXX0072: Error: type information missing or unknown
CXX0025: Error: operator needs class/struct/union
Rebuilding project, cleaning PDB/NCB etc doesn't solve it. What can I do?
Look at this Microsoft support note on: FIX: CXX0033 Error in OMF Type from Forward Class Declaration
Once you fix the PCH problem cited in the support note, I think all your errors will go away.
There is in fact a solution that lets you keep using precompiled headers: check out this more recent KB article and the documentation of the /Yl switch - which seems specifically tailored to this error.
Just add to the stdafx.cpp (or your own custom /Yc file) command line '/Ylxxxx', where xxxx stands for an arbitrary function name in your lib.
I recently faced symptoms identical to yours (in VS2010), and that solved it for me.
Are you trying to debug the "release" build? If so, many local variables will not exist as "debuggable" elements. You can get around this (if you must debug the release build) by debugging at the assembly level and look at the register values (vs. stack values, where auto/local would be in the debug build) and cast them appropriately in the "watch window".
Otherwise, build the Debug build and debug that build version. You'll get assertions where preconditions are not met, relevant/irrelevant stuff dumped to your output window, and more straight-forward debug single stepping.
It helped me to switch from using a program database (/ZI) to "c7 compatible" (/Z7). Switching off precompiled headers did not make a difference. Neither did rebuilding.