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Warnings in kern/dl.c
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Pavel Roskin |
Subject: |
Warnings in kern/dl.c |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:38:55 -0400 |
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Hello, Bean!
I think this change from the x86_64 EFI patch should be reverted:
* kern/dl.c (GRUB_CPU_SIZEOF_VOID_P): Changed to
GRUB_TARGET_SIZEOF_VOID_P.
It causes warnings when compiling grub-emu on x64_64 for i386:
kern/dl.c: In function 'grub_dl_resolve_symbols':
kern/dl.c:357: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
kern/dl.c:368: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
kern/dl.c:370: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
kern/dl.c:376: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
kern/dl.c:378: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
kern/dl.c:382: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
kern/dl.c:384: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
kern/dl.c:389: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
I'm really close to eliminating all warnings, and such additions are
not making me happy.
The warnings could be suppressed somehow, but I don't think it's the
right thing to do. 64-bit grub-emu cannot load 32-bit modules (and
vice versa). 64-bit grub-emu could load 64-bit modules in principle,
although we don't compile them. We could compile special grub-emu
modules, but I would not spend any serious effort on it.
Anyway, I would prefer that we compile support for loading 64-bit
modules and possibly catch some useful warnings relevant to 64-bit
platforms (even if our target is 32-bit). It's better than to
"implement" cross-architecture loading of modules that would not work
anyway by filling the code with casts. It's better than to tolerate
several warnings. Either increases the risk that a real warning would
be missed.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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