Re: Avoidable warning in getdtable.c?

2018-03-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 13 March 2018 at 22:50, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/13/2018 09:54 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> I see you seem to have put a similar pragma for the same warning in >> anytostr.c. >> > > Yes, and that's the sort of thing I'd rather not do elsewhere. That mess > started with the thread here: > >

Re: Avoidable warning in getdtable.c?

2018-03-13 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/13/2018 09:54 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: I see you seem to have put a similar pragma for the same warning in anytostr.c. Yes, and that's the sort of thing I'd rather not do elsewhere. That mess started with the thread here: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2010-10/msg00428.html how ab

Re: Avoidable warning in getdtable.c?

2018-03-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 13 March 2018 at 16:40, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/13/2018 12:51 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> Would it be acceptable to add a pragma >> > > I'm not a fan of cluttering the code just to pacify a false alarm. In my > experience, for Gnulib -Wtautological-compare is more trouble than it's > wort

Re: Avoidable warning in getdtable.c?

2018-03-13 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/13/2018 12:51 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: Would it be acceptable to add a pragma I'm not a fan of cluttering the code just to pacify a false alarm. In my experience, for Gnulib -Wtautological-compare is more trouble than it's worth. See coreutils for an example of using different -W opti

Re: Avoidable warning in getdtable.c?

2018-03-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 12 March 2018 at 23:55, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/09/2018 04:25 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> According to this Open Group reference page >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/ >> resource.h.html >> : >> >> rlim_t: Unsigned integer type used for limit values. >> > > r

Re: Avoidable warning in getdtable.c?

2018-03-12 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/09/2018 04:25 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: According to this Open Group reference page http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/resource.h.html : rlim_t: Unsigned integer type used for limit values. rlim_t is signed on some non-POSIX platforms so the comparison is needed