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From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Dubois <jdubois@mc.com>,
	kai@germaschewski.name, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.9] kbuild warning fixes on Solaris 9
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:39:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026143915.GR25154@smtp.west.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041025224907.GL25154@smtp.west.cox.net>

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:49:07PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:

> The following set of patches is based loosely on the patches that
> Jean-Christophe Dubois came up with for 2.6.7.  Where as the original
> patches added a number of casts to unsigned char, I went the route of
> making the chars be explicitly signed.  I honestly don't know which
> route is better to go down.  Doing this is the bulk of the patch.  Out
> of the rest of the odds 'n ends is that on Solaris, Elf32_Word is a
> ulong, which means all of the printf's are unhappy (uint format, ulong
> arg) for most of the typedefs.

In response to some off-list comments, HOSTCC is gcc-3.3.1 and the char
-> signed char changes are for warnings like:
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:239: warning: subscript has type `char'

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-26 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-25 22:49 Tom Rini
2004-10-26 14:39 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2004-10-26 22:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-26 20:41   ` Tom Rini
2004-10-30 23:39     ` Sam Ravnborg

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