+2006-01-20 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
+
+ * configure.ac: Add -Wno-pointer-sign to list of build warnings.
+ * configure: Regenerated.
+
2006-01-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
* MAINTAINERS: Overhaul.
# gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo.
build_warnings="-Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs \
-Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wformat-nonliteral \
--Wunused-label -Wunused-function"
+-Wunused-label -Wunused-function -Wno-pointer-sign"
# GCC supports -Wuninitialized only with -O or -On, n != 0.
if test x${CFLAGS+set} = xset; then
# gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo.
build_warnings="-Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs \
-Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wformat-nonliteral \
--Wunused-label -Wunused-function"
+-Wunused-label -Wunused-function -Wno-pointer-sign"
# GCC supports -Wuninitialized only with -O or -On, n != 0.
if test x${CFLAGS+set} = xset; then
+2006-01-18 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
+
+ * gdbint.texinfo (Coding): Add entry for -Wno-pointer-sign to list
+ of warning flags.
+
2006-01-13 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Sequences): Improve menu annotations.
@end smallexample
@item -Wunused-function
+
+@item -Wno-pointer-sign
+In version 4.0, GCC began warning about pointer argument passing or
+assignment even when the source and destination differed only in
+signedness. However, most @value{GDBN} code doesn't distinguish
+carefully between @code{char} and @code{unsigned char}. In early 2006
+the @value{GDBN} developers decided correcting these warnings wasn't
+worth the time it would take.
+
@end table
@emph{Pragmatics: Due to the way that @value{GDBN} is implemented most