[PATCH] shut up warnings in bits/string2.h
Richard Henderson
rth@twiddle.net
Tue Dec 7 18:41:00 GMT 1999
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~
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