SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Well, first I'm not sure what changes Ævar meant to be backported.
>> Back then I briefly glanced at glibc's gitweb [1], but didn't see
>> anything remotely relevant to these compiler errors.
>
> So, I looked at the gnulib repository, where glibc got it's
> obstack.{c,h} from, and it does have a fix for this issue in commit
> 127ed6a3e (obstack: avoid potentially-nonportable function casts,
> 2014-11-04):
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit?id=127ed6a3ea9c46452f079dee50382dc1f70ea796
>
> It chose basically the same approach as my fix, i.e. storing pointers
> to functions with different signatures in an union. However,, the
> differences between our and their obstack.{c,h} are way too big to
> backport their patch.
Thanks. In the meantime, I've queued your fix in my tree, and with
your digging, we can say we did due diligence and apply a local fix
with conscience ;-).
