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Re: patch to eliminate negative unsigned type warning
- To: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at cs dot bris dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: patch to eliminate negative unsigned type warning
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:36:44 -0600
- cc: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <35ACE1A9.3891@cs.bris.ac.uk>you write:
> Hi,
> egcs -Wall gives spurious warnings about passing or assigning unsigned
> types with the top bit set as parameters or variables of a typedef'd
> unsigned type. (http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs-bugs/1998-Jul/0039.html)
>
> This patch to cp/typeck.c fixes the problem.
I'm not going to comment on the patch -- it's a C++ patch and that's
out of my area.
> question. Do you need a copyright assignment for such a small (3 line)
> change? My reading of the FSF guidelines suggest not, but the egcs
> guidelines give no such leeway.
This one is small enough that we would not need an assignment.
jeff