On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 10:48:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015, at 12:53, Karel Zak wrote: > > > > The util-linux release v2.26-rc2 is available at > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26 > > It compiles without error, but shows these warnings along the way: > > libfdisk/src/dos.c: In function 'add_partition': > libfdisk/src/dos.c:1204: warning: format '%ju' expects type 'uintmax_t', but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int' fixed > sys-utils/ipcs.c: In function ‘do_shm’: > sys-utils/ipcs.c:241: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘shm_info’ does break strict-aliasing rules > sys-utils/ipcs.c:241: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘shm_info’ does break strict-aliasing rules > sys-utils/ipcs.c:241: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘shm_info’ does break strict-aliasing rules > sys-utils/ipcs.c:241: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘shm_info’ does break strict-aliasing rules > sys-utils/ipcs.c:241: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘shm_info’ does break strict-aliasing rules > sys-utils/ipcs.c:241: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘shm_info’ does break strict-aliasing rules > sys-utils/ipcs.c:223: note: initialized from here > > sys-utils/ipcutils.c: In function ‘ipc_shm_get_limits’: > sys-utils/ipcutils.c:92: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘shminfo’ does break strict-aliasing rules > sys-utils/ipcutils.c:91: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘shminfo’ does break strict-aliasing rules > sys-utils/ipcutils.c:90: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘shminfo’ does break strict-aliasing rules > sys-utils/ipcutils.c:89: note: initialized from here This does not happen with gcc version 4.9.2. If I good remember some old gcc versions are too strict on strict aliasing rules and it's almost impossible to cast non-allocated memory... Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html