On a system using an older version of gcc (v5.7.4) I get an error: (also AIX 6.1)

        gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -g -O0 -Wall  -O  -std=c99 -Wextra -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Werror=implicit-function-declaration  -I./Include/internal  -I. -I./Include    -DPy_BUILD_CORE_BUILTIN  -DPy_BUILD_CORE -I./Include/internal -c ./Modules/posixmodule.c -o Modules/posixmodule.o
./Modules/posixmodule.c: In function 'os_preadv_impl':
./Modules/posixmodule.c:8765:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'preadv' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
./Modules/posixmodule.c: In function 'os_pwritev_impl':
./Modules/posixmodule.c:9336:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'pwritev' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

On another system - same code base (commit e7a4bb554edb72fc6619d23241d59162d06f249a) no "error" status. (AIX 7.2)

Not knowing gcc I have no idea which is correct - maybe they both are because the second system (where I am a guest) has an explicit declaration of these routines.

Is there a flag I can add to gcc to get the "in-line" pre-processing output so I can look for differences with regard to these two functions?

Thanks for hint.

correction - gcc version is v4.7.4

I don't know what you mean by "in-line" pre-processing output, but you can use -E option to get the normal preprocessor output. Line directives will tell you where those functions come from on a system where there is no compilation error.

Of course, if those functions are defined in some other headers on AIX 6.1, it won't help you, so you might as well just grep /usr/include :)

xlc has an option -qsource that creates output like this - first showing
the code with macro, then showing the expansion

>>>>> SOURCE SECTION <<<<<
...
       16 |         dev = st.st_dev;
       17 |         minor = minor(dev);
       17 +         minor = (int)((dev)&0xFFFF);
       18 |         major = major(dev);
       18 +         major = (int)((unsigned)(dev)>>16);

I'll check and see if -E processes the output in the same way. Thx.

On 2/19/2019 9:29 PM, Alexey Izbyshev wrote:
> Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru> added the comment:
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> I don't know what you mean by "in-line" pre-processing output, but you can use -E option to get the normal preprocessor output. Line directives will tell you where those functions come from on a system where there is no compilation error.
>
> Of course, if those functions are defined in some other headers on AIX 6.1, it won't help you, so you might as well just grep /usr/include :)
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closing. Will open a new issue with a correct description of the issue at hand. The problem is related to 64-bit mode (which was not mentioned before) and minor() major() macro definitions.