Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:19:26 +0000 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Pointer cast warnings in scripts/ |
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On 06.21, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > Should I extract the changes for bkbits and make a reversed patch? > > No, go through the warnings, analyze each one and choose an appropriate > solution. You might want to keep notes, which you can post with the > changelogs, so one can reproduce, why a certain change was done. >
I started doing that, and the more warnings are related to strxxx functions. They are defined as receiving 'char *' pointers, I do not know why someone started to fill the sources with 'signed char *' for text strings...
I did not finish the cleaup due to lack of time, but I was planning to continue...
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