I have a problem building nsXPIDLString.cpp on an IA64 machine. I am not sure if its a source code problem or a configure script problem. The compile dies with the error: In file included from /home/users/jnance/mbuild/mozilla/xpcom/ds/nsXPIDLString.cpp:25: /home/users/jnance/mbuild/mozilla/xpcom/ds/nsXPIDLString.h: In function `PRBool operator== (const PRUnichar *, const nsXPIDLString &)': /home/users/jnance/mbuild/mozilla/xpcom/ds/nsXPIDLString.h:201: static_cast from `const nsXPIDLString' to `const PRUnichar *' and several other warnings about casts. If I go into the config-defs.h file generated by configure an undef HAVE_CPP_NEW_CASTS then the build works. I do not know if the source is wrong or if the configure script should detect this problem.

*** Bug 40938 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

From testing and asking around this seems to be a bug in the compiler. Can't really work around it.

Moving all current open XPCOM and XPCOM Registry bugs to rayw since dp is on sabbatical. rayw is now default assignee for these components.

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So what's the status of this, guys? Compiler bug (suggested by blizzard)? Is this something we can fix? Is it still troubling you? If I don't get tickled back that this is still a problem and something we can reasonably fix, I'm going to mark it closed somehow (either INVALID, or WONTFIX, or something).

I no longer have access to an IA64 machine to test on, so I dont really know if this is still a problem or not. Its fine with me if you mark it as INVALID. I suspect its been fixed.

as suggested, marking INVALID. Thanks, Jim.