compiler warnings and syscall macros
From: Chris Friesen
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 16:36:26 EST
I'm trying to figure something out. For ppc, in asm/unistd.h,
__syscall_nr is defined as:
#define __syscall_nr(nr, type, name, args...) \
unsigned long __sc_ret, __sc_err; \
{ \
<snipped for brevity>
} \
if (__sc_err & 0x10000000) \
{ \
errno = __sc_ret; \
__sc_ret = -1; \
} \
return (type) __sc_ret
Whenever I use this in my code, I get compiler warnings about the
statment "__sc_ret = -1" since it is assigning a negative value to an
unsigned int.
Would it hurt anything if I put in an explicit cast, like this?
__sc_ret = (unsigned long) -1;
This seems to get rid of the warnings, and I can't imagine it hurting
anything.
Am I missing something bad here?
Chris
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