From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New warnings on emacs-26 branch with gcc 8.2.0 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:37:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86a7q0ai2z.fsf@gmail.com> <4195986.6xTypejAr3@omega> <83d0uffrft.fsf@gnu.org> <2510628.alnMaqBdeU@omega> <86a7pho3em.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534822834 32225 195.159.176.226 (21 Aug 2018 03:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 03:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 05:40:29 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1frxWu-0008GQ-Ro for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 05:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxZ1-0001KH-9J for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxUc-0005QE-B6 for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:38:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxTu-0008M0-NV for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxTs-0008K0-OF; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1frxTs-0003Wu-Jw; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:37:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86a7pho3em.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Andy Moreton on Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:20:17 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnulib" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:39244 gmane.emacs.devel:228773 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > GCC 8.1 and later have a new -Wcast-function-type warning (which is > useful, and which emacs enables). This warning requires either an > additional cast or a pragma to suppress the warning at these call sites, > as the mismatch of function signature cannot be fixed otherwise. How many useful warnings has that option given us? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)