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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] fix void* arithmetic

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] fix void* arithmetic
From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:18:35 -0500
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On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 22:06 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:24 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > Hi Ian, I needed the following patch to avoid lots of these warnings:
> >     elf.c:238: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic
> > 
> > Fix void* arithmetic warnings.
> > Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Looks like PPC is the only arch using -Wpointer-arith, is there a reason
> for that?

Is there are reason the other architectures *aren't* using it?

We have some extra warnings enabled because they've helped us in the
past (such as -Wshadow). Given that we're just playing janitor for
everyone else's code though, I think we're about to abandon that one.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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