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Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 21:47:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: Patches for building with gcc 3.1 - tests chunk
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
> > Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 11:19:07 +0200 (MET DST)
> >
> >     urand = ((double)rand()) / RAND_MAX;
> >
> > gives this warning:
> >
> > gcc @../../gcc.opt -I. -I- -I../../../include  -pg -c signals.c
> > cc1.exe: warnings being treated as errors
> > signals.c: In function `int_handler':
> > signals.c:23: warning: cast does not match function type
> 
> That's madness.  Or a bug.
[snip]
> But it's a bug nonetheless.  Someone (tm) should report it.

I'm not so sure it's a bug. It seems that the -Wbad-func-cast option in
gcc.opt is causing this warning to be emitted. Here's its description from the
gcc 3.1 manual:

`-Wbad-function-cast (C only)'
     Warn whenever a function call is cast to a non-matching type.  For
     example, warn if `int malloc()' is cast to `anything *'.

So when we cast rand()'s return value to a double, we get an error. Do we
actually need to cast the return value? It seems like we could just let C's
implicit typecasting handle it, rather than forcing the cast. If I remove the
cast, the warning goes away.

If there are no objections, I will change the following line in
tests/libc/go32/signals.c from:

    urand = ((double)rand()) / RAND_MAX;

to:

    urand = rand() / RAND_MAX;

OK to commit that?

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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