On 12 March 2018 at 23:55, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 03/09/2018 04:25 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> According to this Open Group reference page >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/ >> resource.h.html >> : >> >> rlim_t: Unsigned integer type used for limit values. >> > > rlim_t is signed on some non-POSIX platforms so the comparison is needed > there. Sorry, don't recall which platforms offhand, but a quick Google > search suggests that older HP-UX is one such (this version was before the > requirement in question was added to POSIX). See page 18 of: > > https://community.hpe.com/hpeb/attachments/hpeb/itrc-151/ > 23778/1/241970.pdf > > How about compiling with -Wno-tautological-compare instead, at least for > code derived from Gnulib? In my experience, -Wtautological-compare is more > trouble than it's worth, for Gnulib code. >
Would it be acceptable to add a pragma to turn this warning off at that point? (And explain why, against immediate appearances, it's needed?) -- https://rrt.sc3d.org
