Christian Biere wrote:

> I suspect the uncalled for comment of a by-stander kind of provoked this
> comment. Let me tell you, nvi from pkgsrc does not compile here on NetBSD
> with GCC 4.1.2 at all.

my bad. I assumed it did. after all, the lvalue casts are all in one
file, dist/common/mem.h from what I can see. The gentoo fix looks 
applicable, thats what I intend submitting as a patches/ file.

 > GCC created a mess by introducing the idiotic
> concept of lvalue casts. They are just cleaning up their own mess. Don't
> call them fascists, neither as a joke nor seriously. 

oh dear. did I provoke a descent into godwins law? again, my bad. lets 
not go there.

 > Most of these lvalue
> casts are actually caused by accident in macros. I don't think anyone who
> knows what he's doing ever used lvalue casts. Also GCC has emitted warnings
> for such code for about one or two years.

um. Well, its in the 1.8x rev (since Keith Bostic) so I guess the other 
auther must be responsible. I wouldn't go casting assertions on Mr 
Bostic's coding skills...

-G
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