From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <19991207184120.D13790@twiddle.net>
References: <19991207220811.M515@mff.cuni.cz>
X-SW-Source: 1999-12/msg00016.html

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~