Re: [bug-gawk] Next gawk beta towards 4.1.1

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Hermann.

> Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 03:30:49 +0200
> From: Hermann Peifer <address@hidden>
> To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] Next gawk beta towards 4.1.1
>
> On 2014-04-04 15:45, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > In article <address@hidden>,
> > Hermann Peifer  <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On 2014-04-03 21:00, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> >>> http://www.skeeve.com/gawk/gawk-4.1.0h.tar.gz
> >>>
> >>> Did anyone test the last one?
> >>
> >> Yes. At least in so far that configure && make check resulted into a
> >> "ALL TESTS PASSED", on Mac OS X (same result for the current 4.1.0h
> >> version).
> >>
> >> Hermann
> >
> > Great, thanks!
> >
>
> You are welcome.
>
> By the way, and somewhat unrelated to version 4.1.0h: I do observe these 
> compiler warnings around cint_array.c, int_array.c and str_array.c since 
> several weeks (perhaps: months?). They don't seem to harm in any way and 
> do only occur under Mac OS X, not under Linux.
>
> Attached the output of:
> $ ( ./configure && make check ) 2>&1 | tee out.log
>
> Hermann

> gcc -DDEFPATH='".:/usr/local/share/awk"' 
> -DDEFLIBPATH="\"/usr/local/lib/gawk\"" 
> -DSHLIBEXT="\"so"\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGAWK 
> -DLOCALEDIR='"/usr/local/share/locale
> "' -I.     -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -MT cint_array.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/cint_array.Tpo 
> -c 
> -o cint_array.o cint_array.c
> cint_array.c:165:9: warning: cast to 'NODE **' (aka 'struct exp_node **') 
> from s
> maller integer type 'int' [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>         return (NODE **) ! NULL;
>                ^

Thanks.  This code is somewhat abusing the language. It works portably,
but I will agree that it isn't wonderful.  Unfortunately, there isn't a
quick fix.  I'm going to have to leave it alone for now.

Arnold