[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Fix warnings not usually emitted (CFLAGS not in configure.ac)

[Allan McRae]

On 13/09/10 00:01, Sebastian Nowicki wrote:
> -Wbad-function-cast:
> 	* casting long int to pmpkgreason_t unecessarily
> 	* casting pmpkgreason_t to long unecessarily
> 	* casting off_t (signed integral) to float before division
> 	  unecessarily
>
> -Wshadow:
> 	* shadowing "handle" variables renamed to "new_handle" and
> 	  "local_handle" shadowing "filestr" renamed to "pkgfilestr"
> 	* shadowing "remove" renamed to "remove_pkgs"
> 	* shadowing "sync" renamed to "syncpkg"
> 	* Removed redundant declarations
> 	* shadowing "prefix" renamed to "entry_prefix"
> 	* shadowing "pipe" renamed to "pipe_handle"
>
> -Wconversion:
> 	* explicitely cast nread to size_t from ssize_t in dload.c
> 	  (guaranteed not to be negative at this point)
> 	* use size_t, as opposed to int, for string length and byte sizes
> 	* use signed int in alpm_list_count as advertised by API (should
> 	  probably be changed to usngiend int or size_t, but requires an API
> 	  change)
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Nowicki<sebnow at gmail.com>

I tried having a look at this but kept getting lost in what part of the 
patch fixed what warnings.  e.g. I can not find the casting off_t to 
float change for -Wbad-function-cast.

I think it would be much better to split these up a bit more.  Splitting 
by error type would be fine for me.

> ---
> Some of these warnings are quite pedantic and wouldn't really cause
> issues, so they might not be desired.
>
> The change in alpm_list_count is backwards in my opinion - the API
> should be changed to use unsigned int (or size_t). I didn't want to
> change the API though.

I can not see why this ever returned a signed int.

Allan