Re: Porting of C++ interface on Win95 using MSDV C++ 4.0

> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Porting of C++ interface on Win95 using MSDV C++ 4.0
> Reply-To: address@hidden (Vidyadhar Mudkavi)
> Subject: Porting C++ interface on Windows95 using Microsoft 
>          Developer Studios Visual C++ 4.0
> Organization: DLR Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Germany

Hi Dr. Mudkavi,

> While trying to port the C++ interface for the netCDF on Windows95, 
> we obtain an error due to 'declare' statement in the ncvalues.hh files. 
> Noting that these statements are not directly part of the C++ language, we
> get this error only while using the MSDV's Integrated Development
> Environment. No error is reported either by compilers running on SUN
> or the Cygnus ports of gnu compiler on the Win32 platform. 
  ...

The use of the "declare" macro in ncvalues.hh (and the "implement" macro
in other netCDF C++ source files) uses the definition of these macros
that is supposed to be provided by including the following statement:

    #include <generic.h>

The macros in this file are widely used to paste tokens together to form
new names.

I've appended a copy of the version of this file distributed with the
GNU C++ library, in case it's not available with the MSDV C++ 4.0.  

--Russ
_____________________________________________________________________

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu

// This may look like C code, but it is really -*- C++ -*-
/* 
Copyright (C) 1988 Free Software Foundation
    written by Doug Lea (address@hidden)

This file is part of the GNU C++ Library.  This library is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
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*/

#ifndef generic_h
#define generic_h 1

/*
 *      See the CPP manual, argument prescan section for explanation
 */

#define name2(a,b) gEnErIc2(a,b)
#define gEnErIc2(a,b) a ## b

#define name3(a,b,c) gEnErIc3(a,b,c)
#define gEnErIc3(a,b,c) a ## b ## c

#define name4(a,b,c,d) gEnErIc4(a,b,c,d)
#define gEnErIc4(a,b,c,d) a ## b ## c ## d

#define GENERIC_STRING(a) gEnErIcStRiNg(a)
#define gEnErIcStRiNg(a) #a

#define declare(clas,t)        name2(clas,declare)(t)
#define declare2(clas,t1,t2)   name2(clas,declare2)(t1,t2)

#define implement(clas,t)      name2(clas,implement)(t)
#define implement2(clas,t1,t2) name2(clas,implement2)(t1,t2)

//extern genericerror(int,char*);
typedef int (*GPT)(int,char*);

#define set_handler(gen,type,x) name4(set_,type,gen,_handler)(x)

#define errorhandler(gen,type)  name3(type,gen,handler)

#define callerror(gen,type,a,b) (*errorhandler(gen,type))(a,b)


#endif /* generic_h */