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Re: util-linux 2.10p compiler warnings
- To: drepper at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: util-linux 2.10p compiler warnings
- From: Andries dot Brouwer at cwi dot nl
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:04:27 +0200 (MET DST)
- Cc: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
From drepper@redhat.com Sat Oct 21 03:42:59 2000
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl writes:
> According to the standards available to me, the field
> sem_nsems of a struct semid_ds has type unsigned short.
>
> However, I am told that with glibc 2.1.95 compilation
Don't complain here, go to the clever kernel people.
No use hiding behind them, I would say - this is a libc matter.
First of all the headers should declare an unsigned short.
And secondly, if the kernel gives us some other type
libc should convert.
Andries