[notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch-new: Eliminate gcc warning caused by ino_cmp.
Jan Janak
jan at ryngle.com
Sun Nov 22 18:47:24 PST 2009
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:32:36 +0100, Jan Janak <jan at ryngle.com> wrote:
>> The function passed to scandir in the fourth argument takes two
>> const void* arguments. To eliminate the gcc warning about incompatible
>> types, we change ino_cmp to match this and then re-type the parameters
>> in the body of ino_cmp.
>
> Actually, on my system at least, (Linux with glibc 2.10.1), our current
> function matches the prototype. So applying your patch actually
> *introduces* a warning where there was no warning before.
>
> What a nuisance...
>
> Any ideas for a good fix, anyone?
OK, I have an older version of glibc. If the original code works with
glibc 2.10 then just ignore the patch. I think testing for a
particular version of glibc is not worth the effort (it's just a
warning anyway).
-- Jan
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