-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Error in cs46xx.c
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 20:52:06 +0200
From: Mikeb1 <mikeb1@t-online.de>
Newsgroups: linux.kernel

Dear kernel hackers:

I got the following compile error with 2.4.21

make modules

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make -C sound modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/sound'
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o soundcore.o sound_core.o sound_firmware.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o sound.o dev_table.o soundcard.o sound_syms.o
audio.o audio_syms.o dmabuf.o midi_syms.o midi_synth.o midibuf.o
sequencer.o sequencer_syms.o sound_timer.o sys_timer.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o sb_lib.o sb_common.o sb_audio.o sb_midi.o
sb_mixer.o sb_ess.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o pas2.o pas2_card.o pas2_midi.o pas2_mixer.o pas2_pcm.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o sb.o sb_card.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o wavefront.o wavfront.o wf_midi.o yss225.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o gus.o gus_card.o gus_midi.o gus_vol.o gus_wave.o
ics2101.o
/opt/gcc3/bin/gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
-DMODULE  -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=cs46xx  -c -o
cs46xx.o cs46xx.c
cs46xx.c:950: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used invalidly for
`off'
cs46xx.c:951: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used invalidly for
`val'
cs46xx.c: In function `cs_ac97_init':
cs46xx.c:4263: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range
of data type
make[2]: *** [cs46xx.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/sound'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_sound] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2

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Linux stable-box.internal 2.4.21 #1 Mon Jun 23 20:55:13 CEST 2003 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Gnu C			3.3
Gnu make		3.79.1
util-linux		2.11y
mount			2.11y
modutils		2.4.22
e2fsprogs		1.32
jfsutils		1.0.17
reiserfsprogs		3.6.4
pcmcia-cs		3.1.31
ppp			2.4.1
isdn4k-utils		3.1pre4
Linux C Library		2.3.2
Dynamic linker (ldd)	2.3.2
Procps			2.0.11
Net-tools		1.60
Kbd			1.08
Sh-utils		4.5.3
Modules Loaded		vfat fat isofs ide-cd cdrom natsemi

gcc -v
Configured with: ../gcc-3.3/configure --prefix=/opt/gcc3 --enable-shared
--enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,c++
--with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --host=i686-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version: 3.3