Re: Patch to execve

["Kevin M. Kilbride" <kmk@xxxxxxx>]

Kevin M. Kilbride wrote:

> Secondly, it not only warns about _stripping_ qualifiers, but, in 
> direct violation of the standard, it also warns about the 
> explicitly-permitted conversion of an unqualified pointer to a 
> qualified one.


Actually, in playing with this further, I can see that it is the base 
GCC compiler that emits this warning, not the -Wcast-qual option. This 
is much worse. The warning cannot be suppressed, even though it is 
warning about obviously permitted behavior. Even if the GNU people fix 
it, all existing versions of the compiler will complain about it, 
crippling the warnings facility and necessitating dependence upon bugged 
behavior of their -Wcast-qual option to get code to compile 
warnings-free. Really bad. Ironically, g++ does not suffer from this 
problem.

-sigh-