Hi,
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:35:15PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:26:48AM +0100, Peter Kirchgessner wrote:
> > I am using gcc 2.95.2 on a Suse 6.4 distribution. Most of the 6500
> > warnings "warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic" are
> > generated by the inline functions that replace a memset() or something
> > else. One memset() generates 13 warnings for the same line of source
> > code. Therefore I dont care about them.
>
> Interesting. But what is the difference to my system where I can't
> find these warnings? Maybe a different libc? Mine is glibc 2.1.3.
> Different gcc settings?
[talking to myself :-)]
Peter and me found out that this is a bug in glibc (at least version
2.1.2 and 2.1.3 which is fixed in Debian 2.2 but not in SuSE 6.4 and
maybe other Linux distributions). A comment to README.linux will be
added soon.
Bye,
Henning
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