compile error for stty.c, type truncation

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 7:28 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > $ make defconfig busybox
> >
> >   CC coreutils/stty.o
> > /home/rpjday/bbx/busybox/coreutils/stty.c:285: warning: large integer
> > implicitly truncated to unsigned type
> > /home/rpjday/bbx/busybox/coreutils/stty.c:286: warning: large integer
> > implicitly truncated to unsigned type
> > make[1]: *** [/home/rpjday/bbx/busybox/coreutils/stty.o] Error 1
> > make: *** [busybox] Error 2
>
> gcc 4.1 toolchain, right?

mais oui.

> Why do they keep adding new stupid warnings for things that aren't
> bugs?  My theory is they hate their users.  It's not just
> condecention, it has to be active malice at some point...

you know the old saying:  "never attribute to malice that which can be
explained by stupidity."  that's crap.  sometimes, it really *is*
malice.  :-)

rday