On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:01:00AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: > POSIX.xs has recently been giving the following warnings: > > POSIX.xs: In function `XS_POSIX_sigaction': > POSIX.xs:1348: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast > POSIX.xs:1357: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type > > The problem comes with assigning Perl's Sigaction_t to sigaction.sa_handler. > It > seems to like C<void *>, so that's what we can give it. It's paassing its > tests from what I can see, but we'll see how the smokes do on platforms other > than Linux and OpenBSD.
Casting pointers to functions to pointers to data isn't conformant ANSI C. Offhand I can't remember which platform(s) dislike this. Nicholas Clark
