[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-2440625 ] compile warning for tclBasic.c

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Bugs item #2440625, was opened at 2008-12-17 15:13
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Category: 45. Parsing and Eval
Group: development: 8.6a4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Larry W. Virden (lvirden)
Assigned to: miguel sofer (msofer)
Summary: compile warning for tclBasic.c

Initial Comment:
platform: sun sparc solaris 8, sun c compiler, tcl 8.6 cvs head

During the gmake all step, the following warning is produced:

      /vol/tclsrcsol/tcl86/tcl/unix/../generic/tclAsync.c
/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -c -g    -KPIC -I"." -I/vol/tclsrcsol/tcl86/tcl/unix/../unix -I/vol/tclsrcsol/tcl86/tcl/unix/../generic -I/vol/tclsrcsol/tcl86/tcl/unix/../
libtommath -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"tcl\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"tcl\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"
8.6\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"tcl\ 8.6\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_LIMITS_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DTCL_CFGVAL_ENCODING=\"iso8859-1\" -D_REENTRANT=1 
-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS=1 -DTCL_SHLIB_EXT=\".so\" -DTCL_CFG_DEBUG=1 -DTCL_TOMMATH=1 -DMP_PREC=4 -DTCL_WIDE_INT_TYPE=long\ long -DHAVE_STRUCT_DIRENT64=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_STAT64=1 -DHAVE_OPEN64=1 -DHAVE_LSEEK64=1 -DHAVE_TYPE_OFF64_T=1 -DWORDS_BIGENDIAN=1 -DHAVE_GETCWD=1 -DHAVE_OPENDIR=1 -DHAVE_STRTOL=1 -DHAVE_WAITPID=1 -
DHAVE_GETADDRINFO=1 -DUSE_TERMIOS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -
DHAVE_DECL_TZNAME=1 -DHAVE_TZNAME=1 -DHAVE_GMTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_MKTIME=1 -DHAVE_TIMEZONE_VAR=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLKSIZE=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLKSIZE=1 -DHAVE_INTPTR_T=1 -DHAVE_UINTPTR_T=1 -DNO_UNION_WAIT=1 -DHAVE_SIGNED_CHAR=1
 -DHAVE_LANGINFO=1 -DHAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_FILIO_H=1 -DTCL_UNLOAD_DLLS=1
      /vol/tclsrcsol/tcl86/tcl/unix/../generic/tclBasic.c
"/vol/tclsrcsol/tcl86/tcl/unix/../generic/tclBasic.c", line 4297: warning: assignment type mismatch:
        pointer to function(pointer to void, pointer to struct Tcl_Interp {pointer to char unused3, pointer to function(..) returning void unused4, int unused5}
, int, pointer to const pointer to struct Tcl_Obj {int refCount, pointer to char
 bytes, int length, pointer to const struct Tcl_ObjType {..} typePtr, union  {..
} internalRep}) returning int "=" pointer to void

While I understand it is "just" a warning, I thought it might be worthwhile hearing about in case there is something that can be done about it.

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>Comment By: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Date: 2008-12-17 16:44

Message:
I just googled (and relied on memory and kbk and jenglish)

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Comment By: Alexandre Ferrieux (ferrieux)
Date: 2008-12-17 16:23

Message:
Donal, can you give a pointer (pun intended) to a relevant standard excerpt
showing this unbelievable degree of freedom ? Or details about the "various
reasons" ?

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Comment By: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Date: 2008-12-17 16:10

Message:
Problem is, C doesn't guarantee that sizeof(void*)==sizeof(Tcl_ObjCmdProc*)
for various reasons. (If they are the same, it's a safe thing to do. If
they aren't, it's disastrous.)

So, a cast and an assert. (Assigning to originator of this code.)

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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2008-12-17 15:42

Message:

best to add a typecast?

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