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bug#8732: uinttostr: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always fal
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Eric Blake |
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bug#8732: uinttostr: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false |
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Wed, 25 May 2011 15:29:12 -0600 |
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tag 8732 wontfix
close 8732
done
On 05/25/2011 01:54 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/25/2011 01:23 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>> Hi *,
>>
>> building coreutils-8.12 with '--enable-gcc-warnings' fails on my SLES 10.3
>> server:
>>
>> CC uinttostr.o
>> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>> In file included from uinttostr.c:3:
>> anytostr.c: In function 'uinttostr':
>> anytostr.c:39: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
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> the warning is spurious. But we don't know how
> to shut up gcc.
You're not the first to hit this, either:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-10/msg00435.html
Since our party line back then was to "upgrade gcc or quit using -Werror
with old gcc", I'm marking this as a wontfix; but if you can come up
with a patch, we can reopen it.
--
Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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