Re: Excessive Warnings from CVS build

From: Henning Meier-Geinitz (hmg-ml@gmx.de)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 10:58:00 PST

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    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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