[libvirt] [PATCH] build: fix building with '--enable-test-locking'

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Dec 18 13:34:43 UTC 2013


On 12/18/2013 06:25 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:

>>> pipefd[bool] fail (obviously).  Forcing the subscript to be bool by
>>> double negation fixes the build breaker.
>>
>> I don't get how this could possibly make a difference.  The 'output'
>> variable is declared bool, and then only ever assigned 'false' or
>> 'true', which if bool is replaced by gnulib are still guaranteed to be 0
>> and 1, so using it directly as an array index is still safe.
>>
> 
> But the thing is that due to -Dbool=char the variable is declared
> char, not bool.

But if the variable contains exactly 0 or 1, it still makes no
difference as an array index whether it was typed bool or char.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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