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Date:      Sun, 06 Apr 2003 23:00:08 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Robin Carey <robin_carey5@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Two problems with 4.8
Message-ID:  <xzpr88fs5nr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030405161701.31564.qmail@web10908.mail.yahoo.com> (Robin Carey's message of "Sat, 5 Apr 2003 17:17:01 %2B0100 (BST)")
References:  <20030405161701.31564.qmail@web10908.mail.yahoo.com>

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Robin Carey <robin_carey5@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> 1) There are quite a few warnings produced when compiling a Kernel,

We must have different definitions of "quite a few".  There are
actually very few, and most of them are caused either by implicitly
dropped qualifiers or invalid implicit pointer casts.

> which is surely a Bad Thing (tm).

Not necessarily.

> 2) I don't know a lot about ``ISO C99'' but according to
> Slackware-8.1 <stdint.h> is part of the standard; FreeBSD-4.8 only
> has <inttypes.h>. And from what little I know about ``ISO C99'' the
> uint*_t types defined by FreeBSD-4.8 <inttypes.h> should actually be
> defined in <stdint.h>. That's how its done on Slackware-8.1.

This is not a bug.  FreeBSD 4.8 does not claim to conform to ISO/IEC
9899:1999.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org



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