[wplug] C compiling question
Rick Smith
rick at rbsmith.com
Tue Oct 1 22:09:56 EDT 2002
Chopping up James' post:
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:09:27PM -0400, James O'Kane wrote:
> I think what I was asking was, did the semantics of == ever change with
> respect to pointers in recent revisions of gcc?
I doubt it. Doesn't matter. From the snippets you've shown,
the code is busted.
> This is packaged along with Red Hat 7.3, so I'm concluding that this must
> have worked in some fashion at some point.
Or not tested. Or tested with a broken test.
> How can this have made it into 'production' code when the whole
> functionality of this modules doesn't work as is.
Maybe you haven't enough seen production code. There's quite
a wide variety of stuff out there, some quite hard to believe
that it works for anyone (nothing of course from my previous
or current employer :).
> I want to make sure I have my arguement straight before I email the guy
> with a patch.
Sounds to me like your argument is straight.
-- Rick
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