Re: Building current

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Apr 4, 11:20pm, bqt%update.uu.se@localhost (Johnny Billquist) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Building current

| On 2013-04-04 15:20, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > In article <515D7041.3020607%softjar.se@localhost>,
| > Johnny Billquist  <bqt%softjar.se@localhost> wrote:
| >> Trying to build current natively on a VAX today gives a whole bunch of
| >> errors of the form:
| >>
| >> /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getpass.c(189): warning: conversion of 'unsigned
| >> char' to 'int' is out of range [119]
| >>
| >> Anyone else seen this? Is it local to VAX only, or something other
| >> platforms also see? I tried looking at the code, but my eyes rolled up
| >> almost immediately.
| >
| > If you make 'c' 'unsigned char' do the warnings go?
| 
| Nope. Same error.
| However, the error (from lint) seems silly. How can an unsigned char 
| conversion to an int ever lead to out of range???

Something is wrong with the vax lint description I guess.

christos