bug #149713

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Feb 28 15:13:50 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:05 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> IMHO these kind of fixes belong to upstream and that's where they should 
> be reported to begin with, patching FE packages to shut up compiler 
> warnings (especially when talking about a non FC compiler) isn't perhaps 
> the most productive use of packagers' time.

Some compiler warnings warn of harmless things, but this one looks like
a real bug. As it happens, it looks like the references to gc[3] will
actually affect the variable 'use_gc', with unpredictable results.
Probably worth fixing and sending the patch upstream in this case.

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dwmw2




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