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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-12-01 11:25:26 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-12-01 11:25:26 +0000
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Update.
1998-12-01 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de> * sunrpc/auth_des.c: Use new XDR int32 functions for integers. * sunrpc/rpc/xdr.h: Add IXDR INT32 functions. * sunrpc/rpc_hout.c: Remove (u_long) casts in defines to avoid conflicts with new solaris version. * sunrpc/rpc_main.c: Fix bug in generating Makefile name (malloc doesn't zero allocated memory). * sunrpc/rpc_svcout.c: Local variables now starts with a _ to avoid conflicts with xdr functions. Solves PR libc/877. * nis/rpcsvc/nis.x: Use always uint32_t. * nis/rpcsvc/nis.h: Likewise. * nis/rpcsvc/nis_object.x: Likewise. 1998-12-01 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * math/libm-test.c: Various cleanups. Patch by Zack Weinberg. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/setfpucw.c: Use correct type for parameter. Patch by Christian Gafton. * string/envz.h: Add prototype for envz_remove. Reported by Andreas Jaeger.
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@@ -1140,6 +1140,16 @@ taken care in user programs using the firewall structures and therefore
those programs (ipfw is AFAIK the only one) should deal with this problem
themselves.
+?? I get floods of warnings when I use -Wconversion and include
+ <string.h> or <math.h>.
+
+{ZW} <string.h> and <math.h> intentionally use prototypes to override
+argument promotion. -Wconversion warns about all these. You can safely
+ignore the warnings.
+
+-Wconversion isn't really intended for production use, only for shakedown
+compiles after converting an old program to standard C.
+
? Miscellaneous