From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix gcc-4 warning in accept() call Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:53:43 -0700 Message-ID: <433CD2E7.5090909@zytor.com> References: <1128027901.24397.57.camel@dv> <7vachv9kbq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pavel Roskin , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 30 07:55:07 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ELDqI-00065M-9z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:53:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932471AbVI3Fx4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:53:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932497AbVI3Fxz (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:53:55 -0400 Received: from paleosilicon.orionmulti.com ([209.128.68.66]:17899 "EHLO paleosilicon.orionmulti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932471AbVI3Fxz (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:53:55 -0400 X-Envelope-From: hpa@zytor.com Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-239-42.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.239.42]) (authenticated bits=0) by paleosilicon.orionmulti.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8U5rgJv027872 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:53:43 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vachv9kbq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on paleosilicon.orionmulti.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on paleosilicon.orionmulti.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Pavel Roskin writes: > > >>gcc-4 warns about sign mismatch in pointers. Third argument in accept() >>is socklen_t, which is unsigned. Since Linus doesn't like socklen_t >>(see commit 7fa090844f7d1624c7d1ffc621aae6aec84a1110), let's use >>unsigned int. > > Based on the list comments, I'd drop this patch -- it appears > that gcc-4 warning is useless in this case. > No, it's not. The proper type, if you don't use socklen_t, is int, not unsigned int. -hpa