Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

Rob Landley
2007-02-13T21:14:04Z

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 2:25 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> THE FACT IS, THAT "strlen()" IS DEFINED UNIVERSALLY AS TAKING "char *".
>
> That BY DEFINITION means that "strlen()" cannot care about the sign,
> because the sign IS NOT DEFINED UNIVERSALLY!
>
> And if you cannot accept that fact, it's your problem. Not mine.
>
> The warning is CRAP. End of story.

In busybox we fed the compiler -funsigned-char to make it shut up. (And so we
had consistent bugs between arm and x86.)

Building tcc I had to feed it -fsigned-char because -funsigned char broke
stuff. :)

Rob
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