[M3devel] new unknown qualification errors

[Neels Janosch Hofmeyr]

Hi devel,

I am trying to compile the suplib with the new 5.5.1 snapshot cm3. It 
worked fine with 5.4.0, but now I get errors I cannot figure out how to 
correct:

===> suplib
--- building in LINUXLIBC6 ---

new source -> compiling StatBufOffT64.m3
"../src/StatBufOffT64.m3", line 40: unknown qualification '.' (asLong)
"../src/StatBufOffT64.m3", line 45: unknown qualification '.' (assignOffT)
2 errors encountered
new source -> compiling Ugzip.m3
"../src/Ugzip.m3", line 63: unknown qualification '.' (DisableSwitching)
"../src/Ugzip.m3", line 67: unknown qualification '.' (EnableSwitching)
"../src/Ugzip.m3", line 74: unknown qualification '.' (DisableSwitching)
"../src/Ugzip.m3", line 78: unknown qualification '.' (EnableSwitching)
4 errors encountered
new source -> compiling CVTree.m3
"../src/CVTree.m3", line 315: unknown qualification '.' (DisableSwitching)
"../src/CVTree.m3", line 319: unknown qualification '.' (EnableSwitching)
"../src/CVTree.m3", line 325: unknown qualification '.' (DisableSwitching)
"../src/CVTree.m3", line 329: unknown qualification '.' (EnableSwitching)
"../src/CVTree.m3", line 335: unknown qualification '.' (DisableSwitching)
"../src/CVTree.m3", line 339: unknown qualification '.' (EnableSwitching)
6 errors encountered
compilation failed => not building library "libsuplib.a"
Fatal Error: package build failed


I need help with all of these. However, I tried investigating the first 
one: Utypes.asLong()

By coincidence, I saw that in FSPosix.m3, a line saying
    status.size := Utypes.asLong(statBuf.st_size);
was changed to
    status.size := ORD(statBuf.st_size);

Reading the log for the linux/Utypes.i3 gets me confused. It says how to 
make a off_t from a long, but doesn't say anything about the reverse 
direction. Is ORD(x) always the way to go? Here is the log extract:

revision 1.4
date: 2007-11-29 03:53:15 +0100;  author: hosking;  state: Exp;  lines: 
+0 -3;  commitid: 3xU0vDzVxflBSpHs;
Remove residual implementations of Utypes.asLong and Utypes.assignOffT.
----------------------------
revision 1.3
date: 2004-01-30 18:45:34 +0100;  author: wagner;  state: Exp;  lines: 
+1 -0;
add a procedure to assign values to off_t variables, as they may now be
structured types, depending on the platform:

  PROCEDURE expandAssign(VAR dest: off_t; src: long)


Well, where would API changes like these be documented, if I ever need 
to look them up on my own?
Thanks,

-- 
Neels Janosch Hofmeyr
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