Re: [PATCH 2.6.9] kbuild warning fixes on Solaris 9

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:49:07PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:

> The following set of patches is based loosely on the patches that
> Jean-Christophe Dubois came up with for 2.6.7.  Where as the original
> patches added a number of casts to unsigned char, I went the route of
> making the chars be explicitly signed.  I honestly don't know which
> route is better to go down.  Doing this is the bulk of the patch.  Out
> of the rest of the odds 'n ends is that on Solaris, Elf32_Word is a
> ulong, which means all of the printf's are unhappy (uint format, ulong
> arg) for most of the typedefs.

In response to some off-list comments, HOSTCC is gcc-3.3.1 and the char
-> signed char changes are for warnings like:
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:239: warning: subscript has type `char'

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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