Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Rob Landley <> | | Subject | Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:13:40 -0500 |
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On Tuesday 13 February 2007 2:25 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote: > THE FACT IS, THAT "strlen()" IS DEFINED UNIVERSALLY AS TAKING "char *". > > That BY DEFINITION means that "strlen()" cannot care about the sign, > because the sign IS NOT DEFINED UNIVERSALLY! > > And if you cannot accept that fact, it's your problem. Not mine. > > The warning is CRAP. End of story.
In busybox we fed the compiler -funsigned-char to make it shut up. (And so we had consistent bugs between arm and x86.)
Building tcc I had to feed it -fsigned-char because -funsigned char broke stuff. :)
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