On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 07:46:17PM -0700, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> I just spent several hours testing the build on Solaris 8 with the native
> compiler, which squawked about a huge number of signed/unsigned character
> pointer mismatch warnings that all other compilers ignore.
> Cleaning all this up is pretty much done now, but it meant some (char *)
> to (unsigned char *) changes that will be visible in the API once this
> stuff is merged into a release.
I've been seeing those on Solaris 10 with the native compiler too.
They are warnings, and generally innocuous. It is good to know that
they will soon disappear. I suppose I should have reported them as
a bug.
> What's the common wisdom here: Does this sort of change require a major
> version number increase in the library, or is this sufficiently minor that
> it can be incorporated into the next minor library version change?
I'd say it's minor.
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-Gary Mills- -Unix Group- -Computer and Network Services-
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