Re: Compiling kernel with SuSE 8.2/gcc 3.3

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steve French wrote:

> Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> writes:
>
> > during tests with latest SuSE distro 8.2 compiling 2.4.21-pre6 showed a lot of
> > "comparison between signed and unsigned" warnings. It looks like SuSE ships gcc
>
> I also noticed lots of compiler warnings with gcc 3.3, now default in SuSE,
> and cleaned up most of them for the cifs vfs but there are a few that just
> look wrong for gcc to spit out warnings on.   For example the following
> local variable definition and the similar ones in the same file
> (fs/cifs/inode.c):
>
> 	__u64 uid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF;
>
> generates a warning saying the value is too long for a long on
> x86 SuSE 8.2 with gcc 3.3 - which makes no sense.  Any value
> above 0xFFFFFFFFF generates the same warning (intuitively
> 36 bits should fit in an unsigned 64 bit local variable).
[SNIPPED...]

I think the compiler doesn't have a default type for something
that long. Therefore you have to define is as:

 	__u64 uid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL;

Seems dumb, but it even works.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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