The getopt.c file generates the following warnings from Appleās gcc (Apple clang version 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.62)):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- getopt.c:208:21: warning: implicit conversion changes signedness: 'long' to 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned long') [-Wsign-conversion] namelen = nameend - d->__nextchar; ~ ~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ getopt.c:255:34: warning: implicit conversion changes signedness: 'int' to 'unsigned long' [-Wsign-conversion] else if ((ambig_set = malloc (n_options)) == NULL) ~~~~~~ ^~~~~~~~~ getopt.c:369:16: warning: variable 'option_index' may be uninitialized when used here [-Wconditional-uninitialized] *longind = option_index; ^~~~~~~~~~~~ getopt.c:204:19: note: initialize the variable 'option_index' to silence this warning int option_index; ^ = 0 3 warnings generated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- when compiled with these warnings enabled: -Wall -Wcast-align -Wcomma -Wconditional-type-mismatch -Wconditional-uninitialized -Wconversion -Wextra -Wfloat-equal -Wfor-loop-analysis -Widiomatic-parentheses -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wlogical-op-parentheses -Wnewline-eof -Wno-unknown-warning-option -Wredundant-decls -Wshadow -Wshift-sign-overflow -Wsign-compare -Wsign-conversion -Wsometimes-uninitialized -Wstring-conversion -Wuninitialized -Wunreachable-code-break -Wunreachable-code -Wunused -Wwrite-strings Below is a patch that fixes all these warnings. - Paul --- lib/getopt.c.ORIG 2020-05-27 14:45:22.000000000 -0700 +++ lib/getopt.c 2020-05-27 14:57:42.000000000 -0700 @@ -201,11 +201,11 @@ const struct option *p; const struct option *pfound = NULL; int n_options; - int option_index; + int option_index = 0; for (nameend = d->__nextchar; *nameend && *nameend != '='; nameend++) /* Do nothing. */ ; - namelen = nameend - d->__nextchar; + namelen = (size_t)(nameend - d->__nextchar); /* First look for an exact match, counting the options as a side effect. */ @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ { if (__libc_use_alloca (n_options)) ambig_set = alloca (n_options); - else if ((ambig_set = malloc (n_options)) == NULL) + else if ((ambig_set = malloc ((size_t)n_options)) == NULL) /* Fall back to simpler error message. */ ambig_fallback = 1; else