[HarfBuzz] MSVC compile issue with latest git master

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri Sep 7 14:39:49 UTC 2018


Interesting.  I added the cast because this page:


https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winbase/nf-winbase-interlockedexchangeadd

suggested it takes unsigned.  Can you check if just removing the cast works?

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:28 PM, John Emmas <john at creativepost.co.uk> wrote:

> Apologies if this comes through twice (yesterday, I accidentally posted
> while being unsubscribed). Here's a link on MSDN which might be helpful...
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/191ca0sk.aspx
>
> On 06/09/2018 15:19, John Emmas wrote:
>
>> I updated from git today and I've hit a problem when building with MSVC...
>>
>> Trying to compile almost any source file produces the following compiler
>> error at lines 255 and 256 of 'hb-atomic.hh':-
>>
>>    error C2664: 'InterlockedExchangeAdd' : cannot convert parameter 1
>> from 'unsigned int *' to 'volatile LONG *'
>>
>> Here are the relevant lines:-
>>
>>    inline int inc (void) { return hb_atomic_int_impl_add (&v, 1); }
>>    inline int dec (void) { return hb_atomic_int_impl_add (&v, -1); }
>>
>> and here's how 'hb_atomic_int_impl_add()' looks (at line 109):-
>>
>>    #define hb_atomic_int_impl_add(AI, V)    InterlockedExchangeAdd
>> ((unsigned *) (AI), (V)
>>
>> If I change the above line to this, the compiler error goes away:-
>>
>>    #define hb_atomic_int_impl_add(AI, V)    InterlockedExchangeAdd
>> ((volatile LONG *) (AI), (V)
>>
>> I'm building with MSVC-8 so could someone check on some other versions
>> please with a view to making the change permanent? Thanks.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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