commit fdad690897bab5783236bfbd2217ce7e01f59569 parent 753fd6ea3c4aadf9de5265663a98df371c975dde Author: tjg <tjg> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:25:35 +0000 newer gccs don't "clobber" Diffstat:
| M | INSTALL | | | 7 | +++++-- |
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL @@ -150,8 +150,11 @@ produce a few warnings. Warnings about "implicit declaration" of system functions may occur if your system's include files are deficient---they are usually harmless. -There is a warning about "variable `n' might be clobbered" in walk.c. -I'm not sure how serious this warning is, nor how to eliminate it. +Some older versions of gcc warn about "variable `n' might be +clobbered" in walk.c. As far as I can tell, this is gcc telling you +that it might not be compiling the code correctly! I don't know how +to eliminate the warning, but it doesn't appear to cause any problems +in practice. On some systems there are warnings about "passing arg 2 of `getgroups' from incompatible pointer type" in which.c. I believe this is due to an