bsdtar breakage ?
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 7 10:15:43 PST 2004
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> i386 -current buildworld:
>
> ===> gnu/usr.bin/tar (all)
> /bang/src1/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/../../../contrib/tar/src/create.c: In function `mode_to_chars':
> /bang/src1/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/../../../contrib/tar/src/create.c:264: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
> ===> gnu/usr.bin/tar/doc (all)
> ===> gnu/usr.bin/texinfo (all)
This is gtar.
The relevant code here is:
mode_t v;
int negative;
negative = v < 0;
Since mode_t is unsigned, the comparison
"v < 0" is always false, hence the warning.
This file hasn't been touched in over two years.
mode_t has been unsigned for at least that long.
I smell a compiler upgrade. ;-)
Tim
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