error: Size of "void *" is less than size of "long"

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Hi Philip,

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:12:33PM -0500, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> On 2/9/2010 5:21 PM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > Forgot the attachments :).
> 
> Your system is confused!! The problem isn't the port is something local
> in your system or config or some odd cross compile foobar.
> 
> $ ./size
> sizeof(long)  = 4
> sizeof(void*) = 4
> 
> Can you run this please and post your output ?
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main (int argc, char **argv) {
> 
>   (void)fprintf(stdout, "sizeof(long)  = %d\n", sizeof(long));
>   (void)fprintf(stdout, "sizeof(void*) = %d\n", sizeof(void*));
> 
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> If either of them are '8' I'd look towards cross compile foobars.

Actually, I had already extracted the guilty test from the configure
script and it didn't return an error when run manually:

    axl# cat /tmp/test.c
    int main(void)
    {
	return sizeof(void *) < sizeof(long);
    }
    axl# gcc -o /tmp/test /tmp/test.c
    axl# /tmp/test ; echo $?
    0

Here is your test program:

    axl# cat > /tmp/test2.c
    #include <stdio.h>

    int main (int argc, char **argv) {

      (void)fprintf(stdout, "sizeof(long)  = %d\n", sizeof(long));
      (void)fprintf(stdout, "sizeof(void*) = %d\n", sizeof(void*));

      return 0;
    }
    ^Daxl# gcc -o /tmp/test2 /tmp/test2.c
    axl# /tmp/test2
    sizeof(long)  = 4
    sizeof(void*) = 4

I am utterly puzzled.  I don't have any local change.

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen

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