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Entry  15 Apr 2014, Wes Gohn, Forum, C++11 error 
    Reply  16 Apr 2014, Stefan Ritt, Forum, C++11 error 
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          Reply  17 Apr 2014, Stefan Ritt, Forum, C++11 error 
Message ID: 991     Entry time: 16 Apr 2014     In reply to: 990     Reply to this: 992
Author: Stefan Ritt 
Topic: Forum 
Subject: C++11 error 
> I am having some trouble creating a frontend that interacts with some libraries that use C++11. 
> 
> The flag I added to my MIDAS Makefile to get the C++11 part of the code to work is -std=c++0x. This 
> causes an error in the equipment description in the frontend code.
> 
> The error I get is:
> 
> frontend.cpp:149: error: narrowing conversion of ‘-0x00000000000000001’ from ‘int’ to ‘WORD’ inside { 
> }
> 
> This corresponds to the following in the MIDAS frontend code.
> 
> EQUIPMENT equipment[] = { 
>   {
>    "MWPC",                           /* equipment name */
>    {1, TRIGGER_ALL,                  /* event ID, trigger mask */
>      "BUF2",                        /* event buffer */
>      EQ_POLLED | EQ_EB,              /* equipment type */
>      LAM_SOURCE(0, 0xFFFFFF),        /* event source crate 0, all stations */
>      "MIDAS",                        /* format */
>      TRUE,                           /* enabled */
>      RO_RUNNING,                     /* read only when running */
>      1,                              /* poll for 1ms */
>      0,                              /* stop run after this event limit */
>      0,                              /* number of sub events */
>      0,                              /* don't log history */
>      "", "", "",},
>     read_trigger_event,              /* readout routine */
>   },
> 
>    {""}
> };  <- this is line 149
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> }
> #endif
> 
> Do you know a way to make this compatible with C++11?
> 
> Thanks!

Is this maybe related to the LAM_SOURCE(0, 0xFFFFFFFF) where 0xFFFFFFFF is -1. I guess you are not using CAMAC, so just replace the 
LAM_SOURCE(...) with zero and try again.

/Stefan
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