Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 06/15/11 08:17, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> + vasnprintf: avoid a warning from gcc -Wsign-compare
>> + * lib/vasnprintf.c (VASNPRINTF): Cast a known-positive quantity to
>> + size_t in order to avoid a warning from gcc -Wsign-compare.
>
> Given that the context is this:
>
> if (count >= 0)
> {
> /* Verify that snprintf() has NUL-terminated its
> result. */
> if (count < maxlen
> && ((TCHAR_T *) (result + length)) [count] !=
> '\0')
> abort ();
>
> wouldn't it be better to send the GCC maintainers a bug report?
> Since maxlen is unsigned, and since it is obvious to
> the compiler that count is nonnegative, there is no reason for
> a sign-compare warning here.
Yes, but that takes longer...
Thanks for the prod.
I've done it:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49426
