Timur Tabi wrote:
Not only that, but the warnings are valid. The code that the compile complains about really is making a signed/unsigned comparison.
I discovered something very interesting in the gcc docs:
-Wsign-compare
Warn when a comparison between signed and unsigned values could produce an incorrect result when the signed value is converted to unsigned. This warning is enabled by -W, and by -Wall in C++ only.
This explains why the problem is showing up only on one particular system. There's something wrong with the version of gcc on SuSE 8.2. Our makefile uses /usr/bin/gcc, which has this verison info:
gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
It looks like this might be a bug in the SuSE 8.2 version of gcc. I've found a bunch of similar posts about the SuSE 8.2 compiler. Therefore, I'm going to chalk this up as a compiler bug.
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