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17 Jan 1998 12:33:59 -0800
From: Toshio Kuratomi <badger AT prtr-13 DOT ucsc DOT edu>
To: Mohan Khurana <mohan AT stealth DOT net>, beastium-list AT Desk DOT nl
Subject: Re: Warnings - too many of them.
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I'm not sure about the second bug, but the first looks like normal
C to me.  I believe that the new revised C standard doesn't like
implicitly assigning int to functions.  So the new egcs compiler
is warning that this is now non-standard behavior.

I haven't checked recently to verify though.
-Toshio
On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 12:35:46PM -0500, Mohan Khurana set free these words:
> I am NOT on the mailing list.
> 
> [root AT electrify 12:12:02pm /usr/doc/pentium-gcc] %  gcc -v
> Reading specs from
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/pgcc-2.90.23/specs
> gcc version pgcc-2.90.23 980102 (egcs-1.0.1 release)
> 
> The problems occur with both gcc 2.8 and the pgcc version specified
> above.
> 
> Problem:
> 
> Here is a list of all the warnings/errors:
> 
> In file included from ng.h:25,
>                  from main.c:3:
> /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:2072: warning: type defaults to `int' in
> declaration of `XSetTransientForHint'
> /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:2080: warning: type defaults to `int' in
> declaration of `XActivateScreenSaver'

[snip]

> I could paste more, but I don't want to annoy everyone on the list.
> 
> Let's see one part of Xlib.h:
> 
> extern XChangePointerControl(
> #if NeedFunctionPrototypes
>     Display*        /* display */,
>     Bool        /* do_accel */,
>     Bool        /* do_threshold */,
>     int         /* accel_numerator */,
>     int         /* accel_denominator */,
>     int         /* threshold */
> #endif
> );
> 
> Also, I found another problem, I haven't been able to completely isolate
> it, but I thought I should say it here anyway since it is a potential
> bug.
> 
> I have -I./ as an option passed to gcc.  gcc was complaining that it
> couldn't find the file that was being included from the .c file (it was
> declared #include <something.h>).  I changed it to -I. and it worked.  I
> then put -I./ as the very first option passed to gcc and it worked.
> Maybe it's just my imagination, but I'm pretty sure that's what
> happened.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Mohan Khurana

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