Re: gawk 3.1.3l problem with Solaris 8 and Forte 6U2 64-bit cc

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Paul.  Re this:

> To: address@hidden
> Subject: gawk 3.1.3l problem with Solaris 8 and Forte 6U2 64-bit cc
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:13:46 -0700
>
> Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >     http://www.skeeve.com/gawk-3.1.3l.tar.bz2
>
> I tried compiling that on Solaris 8 with Forte 6 Update 2 cc in 64-bit
> mode, and got the following diagnostics.  These diagnostics all
> reflect violations of the C Standard in one way or another, so they
> should probably get fixed at some point.  ("make check" works, though,
> so it's not important for this particular platform.)

These diagnostics seem to appear only with the Sun compiler, and as
the code works, I'd prefer to leave it alone.  Gawk "borrows" dfa.c from
GNU grep, and I prefer to think of grep as being the primary home for it.
(Let someone else do the hard part :-)

I long ago came to the conclusion that it's impossible to make a program
such as gawk compile completely without warnings on every C compiler
in the world.  As long as the program compiles and passes `make check',
I'm happy.

Thanks,

Arnold