Compiler warnings in latest CVS

Compiler warnings in latest CVS

[Leo]

Hi There,

I am seeing tons of warning messages similar to the following when
compiling Emacs in Fedora 8.

,----
| coding.c:3475: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'safe_bcopy' differ in signedness
`----

The compiler warnings for .el files have been significantly reduced but
the warnings of .c files have increased considerably.

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Re: Compiler warnings in latest CVS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:21:37 +0000
> 
> I am seeing tons of warning messages similar to the following when
> compiling Emacs in Fedora 8.
> 
> ,----
> | coding.c:3475: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'safe_bcopy' differ in signedness
> `----

Does it help to cast the arguments of 'safe_bcopy' to (char *) ?

> the warnings of .c files have increased considerably.

Please report all the warnings, and thanks.

Re: Compiler warnings in latest CVS

[Stefan Monnier]

> I am seeing tons of warning messages similar to the following when
> compiling Emacs in Fedora 8.

> ,----
> | coding.c:3475: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'safe_bcopy' differ in signedness
> `----

These are harmless and are normally turned off by -Wno-pointer-sign, so
somehow you seem to have used other compilation options.


        Stefan