On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 07:04:40PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Those lovely warnings the OSF compiler generates are in the attached log.
cc: Warning: sv.c, line 5703: In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer
value "((char ...)ptr)" is "char", which is not compatible with "unsigned char"
because they differ by signed/unsigned attribute. (ptrmismatch1)
PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(fp, (STDCHAR*)ptr, cnt); /* deregisterize cnt and ptr */
--------^
cc: Warning: sv.c, line 5748: In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer
value "((char ...)ptr)" is "char", which is not compatible with "unsigned char"
because they differ by signed/unsigned attribute. (ptrmismatch1)
PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(fp, (STDCHAR*)ptr, cnt); /* put these back or we're in trouble
*/
----^
cc: Warning: str.c, line 302: In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer
value "((fp)->_ptr)" is "unsigned char", which is not compatible with "char" because
they differ by signed/unsigned attribute. (ptrmismatch1)
ptr = FILE_ptr(fp); /* reregisterize cnt and ptr */
--------^
cc: Warning: str.c, line 319: In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer
value "(char ...)ptr" is "char", which is not compatible with "unsigned char" because
they differ by signed/unsigned attribute. (ptrmismatch1)
FILE_ptr(fp) = (STDCHAR*)ptr;
----^
I have vague memory of staring at these and IIRC no canna fixa without
introducing LHS casts, which again makes HP-UX grumpy.
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