Subject: initializer element not computable at load time To:
None <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG> From: Tim Rightnour <> List: port-
alpha Date: 06/14/1998 05:50:39 I'm slowly running through all
the pkg tree, attempting to compile everything on alpha, and fix
what I can.  I seem to have run into a compiler message that
I've never seen before, and I don't fully understand what it is
saying:  cddbd.c:192: initializer element for `acctab[0].at_def'
is not computable at load time  the code in question basicly
attempts to do:  int foo=(int)"string";  While this is somewhat
of a demented use of an integer, it obviously works on i386 and
whatnot (a.out?). But the alpha gcc chokes on it.  Is this
compiler basicly saying that it cannot perform a string to
integer transform at run-time?  What exactly is "load time"?  Is
this a deficiency of the alpha, 64bit ints, or the ELF format?
(I find the last one hard to believe, seeing as this program
seems to work on other ELF machines)  I tried casting it to
int32_t with no luck.. so