[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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