Re: FPU Bounds [Was: Re: openssh4.0 upgrade]

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23.03.2005, at 18:13, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > >     In anycase, it looks like GCC just breaks when you use the 
> > > internal
> > >     va_arg with a 'char' type.  It is supposed to promote the 
> > > argument
> > >     to an int and then cast it to a char.  Instead it generates, 
> > > well,
> > >     what you see.
> > Actually this is a bug in the code using va_arg. There is even a 
> > warning
> > flag for GCC to catch implicit int promotions for variadic functions,
> > because the variadic function has to use int.
> And the flag is on, the compiler does warn about this. One more reason 
> to get
> our kernel -Werror ready :)

maybe we should feed warnings of at least kernel compiles to a 
webpage/mailing list? i'm doing world builds twice a day anyways...

cheers
  simon

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