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To: Robin Carey <robin_carey5@yahoo.co.uk>
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Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 23:00:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: Two problems with 4.8
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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
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