Proof positive the "signedness of char *" warning is useless.

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Wed Nov 30 03:38:58 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 29 November 2005 05:32 pm, Rob Landley wrote:
> This warning is _actively_ pointless and stupid

usually, the warning about different signed char buffers can be ignored, but 
the rest of the time the warnings about differing signedness is a godsend, 
especially when dealing with integers/etc...

so if you plan on hacking together a grep, dont filter non-char sign warnings
-mike



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