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> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:03:40 +0100
> From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
> 
> With gcc >= 4.0 I get a lot of these when compiling Emacs:
> 
> coding.c:3471: varning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 
> "safe_bcopy" differ in signedness
> 
> coding.c:3471: varning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 
> "safe_bcopy" differ in signedness
> 
> frame.c:2107: varning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 
> "strncmp" differ in signedness
> 
> and so on.
> 
> Is there anything said about what to do about these?

How about if we complain loudly to the GCC maintainers about these
silly warnings, and ask them to modify GCC so that it issues them only
under -Wall?