Re: Compiling kernel with SuSE 8.2/gcc 3.3

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steve French wrote:
>
> > Stephan von Krawczynski <[e-mail]> writes:
> >
> > > during tests with latest SuSE distro 8.2 compiling 2.4.21-pre6 showed a lot of
> > > "comparison between signed and unsigned" warnings. It looks like SuSE ships gcc
> >
> > I also noticed lots of compiler warnings with gcc 3.3, now default in SuSE,
> > and cleaned up most of them for the cifs vfs but there are a few that just
> > look wrong for gcc to spit out warnings on.   For example the following
> > local variable definition and the similar ones in the same file
> > (fs/cifs/inode.c):
> >
> > 	__u64 uid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF;
> >
> > generates a warning saying the value is too long for a long on
> > x86 SuSE 8.2 with gcc 3.3 - which makes no sense.  Any value
> > above 0xFFFFFFFFF generates the same warning (intuitively
> > 36 bits should fit in an unsigned 64 bit local variable).
> [SNIPPED...]
>
> I think the compiler doesn't have a default type for something
> that long. Therefore you have to define is as:
>
>  	__u64 uid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL;
>
> Seems dumb, but it even works.
>

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Dick Johnson
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