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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-12-01 11:25:26 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-12-01 11:25:26 +0000
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Update.
1998-12-01  Thorsten Kukuk  <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>

	* sunrpc/auth_des.c: Use new XDR int32 functions for integers.
	* sunrpc/rpc/xdr.h: Add IXDR INT32 functions.
	* sunrpc/rpc_hout.c: Remove (u_long) casts in defines to avoid
	conflicts with new solaris version.
	* sunrpc/rpc_main.c: Fix bug in generating Makefile name (malloc
	doesn't zero allocated memory).
	* sunrpc/rpc_svcout.c: Local variables now starts with a _ to avoid
	conflicts with xdr functions.  Solves PR libc/877.
	* nis/rpcsvc/nis.x: Use always uint32_t.
	* nis/rpcsvc/nis.h: Likewise.
	* nis/rpcsvc/nis_object.x: Likewise.

1998-12-01  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* math/libm-test.c: Various cleanups.  Patch by Zack Weinberg.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/setfpucw.c: Use correct type for
	parameter.  Patch by Christian Gafton.

	* string/envz.h: Add prototype for envz_remove.
	Reported by Andreas Jaeger.
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@@ -1140,6 +1140,16 @@ taken care in user programs using the firewall structures and therefore
 those programs (ipfw is AFAIK the only one) should deal with this problem
 themselves.
 
+??	I get floods of warnings when I use -Wconversion and include
+	<string.h> or <math.h>.
+
+{ZW} <string.h> and <math.h> intentionally use prototypes to override
+argument promotion.  -Wconversion warns about all these.  You can safely
+ignore the warnings.
+
+-Wconversion isn't really intended for production use, only for shakedown
+compiles after converting an old program to standard C.
+
 
 ? Miscellaneous