Yo Hal!

On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:25:35 -0700
Hal Murray <halmur...@sonic.net> wrote:

> > Yeah.  Type Cassting is now considered suspect, if not totally bad.
> >  
> 
> The error message is coming from an old system so your "now" isn;t a
> good fit.

For some definition of "now".

> Do we write this off as a glitch in an old compiler?  How would we
> fix the code?

Needs to be fixed.  Just fix the cast.

> It doesn't happen at -O1.  It does happen at -O3
> Why are we using -O1?

Beats me.

> Should we make occasional runs at -O3, or others, to see if any
> compiler will find things we should fix?

Depends on the compiler.  I try various things now and then to see
what shakes out.

RGDS
GARY
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