clang problems with math/octave-forge-miscellaneous

[Montgomery-Smith, Stephen]

On 05/17/2014 12:40 PM, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2014 17:13:51 +0000 Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
>> On 05/17/2014 12:00 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
>>> I am trying to make the port math/octave-forge-miscellaneous clang
>>> compliant.  In the file ${WRKSRC}/partarray.cc is are lines like this:
>>>
>>>   Array<octave_idx_type> bidc [maxdims], eidc [maxdims];
>>>   ... stuff ...
>>>           eidc[i] = eidx;
>>>
>>> The compilation dies saying that eidc is not defined.
>>
>> I see the problem.  The compiler actually goes wrong with
>>
>>   Array<octave_idx_type> bidc [maxdims];
>>
>> saying
>>
>> partarray.cc:42:31: error: variable length array of non-POD element type
>>       'Array<octave_idx_type>'
>>
>> So the error is somewhere else.  Sorry for the noise.  But if I don't
>> figure out the latter error, I'll be back with more questions.
> 
> You'll have to declare it as "Array<octave_idx_type> *bidc" and
> use new[] and delete[].

Thank you, thank you, thank you.  That fixed it!