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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: drepper@cygnus.com, libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shut up warnings in bits/string2.h
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 18:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991207184120.D13790@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19991207220811.M515@mff.cuni.cz>

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:08:11PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 	* string/bits/string2.h (__memset_gc, __mempcpy_small, __strcpy_small,
> 	__stpcpy_small): Cast switch expressions to int to shut up compiler
> 	warnings.

The patch is wrong Jakub.  Suppose you have a string of
length 0x1_0000_0001.  You will truncate this to 1 and
do the wrong thing.

I know you are trying to silence the extra warnings from
gcc's -Wtraditional, but there's nothing to be done about
it except possibly nuking it from the compiler.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~1999-12-07 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-07 13:02 Jakub Jelinek
1999-12-07 18:41 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
1999-12-07 23:41 ` Ulrich Drepper
1999-12-08  0:22   ` Jakub Jelinek
1999-12-08  0:34     ` Ulrich Drepper
1999-12-08  7:56       ` Jakub Jelinek

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