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Date:      Sun, 02 Sep 2001 20:35:14 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        David Hill <david@phobia.ms>, audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: users.c PATCH - please review 
Message-ID:  <200109030235.f832ZFh22600@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Sep 2001 12:58:02 EDT." <20010901125802.F85574@coffee.q9media.com> 
References:  <20010901125802.F85574@coffee.q9media.com>  <20010831160414.7125e88e.david@phobia.ms> 

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In message <20010901125802.F85574@coffee.q9media.com> Mike Barcroft writes:
: David Hill <david@phobia.ms> writes:
: > I have patched users/users.c so that it will compile under WARNS?=2.  I have both attached and cut/pasted it to the message.
: > Please review it.
: 
: > diff -ru /usr/src/usr.bin/users.orig/users.c /usr/src/usr.bin/users/users.c
: > --- /usr/src/usr.bin/users.orig/users.c Fri Aug 27 21:07:14 1999
: > +++ /usr/src/usr.bin/users/users.c      Fri Aug 31 15:58:20 2001
: > @@ -117,5 +117,8 @@
: >  scmp(p, q)
: >         const void *p, *q;
: >  {
: > -       return(strncmp((char *)p, (char *)q, UT_NAMESIZE));
: > +       const char *const pp1 = p;
: > +       const char *const pp2 = q;
: > +
: > +       return(strncmp(pp1, pp2, UT_NAMESIZE));
: >  }
: 
: Why create new local variables?  Just get rid of the bogus casts.

Why not just
	return (strncmp((const char *)p, (const char *)q, UT_NAMESIZE));

Also, const char *const is wrong.  No need for the second const.

Warner

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