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Re: ctime declaration in libgcc2.c

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 04 Dec 2001 16:41:13 +0100
Subject: Re: ctime declaration in libgcc2.c
References: <10112021211.AA04356@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu><20011203145036.B7284@redhat.com>

Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

|> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 07:11:14AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
|> > Mot systems seem to have it in time.h, but can we safely #include that
|> > from libgcc2.c?
|> 
|> No.
|>  
|> > Any other suggestions?
|> 
|> Leave the warning.

Do you propose to remove the declaration?  That would break ia64.  ctime
is returning a pointer, and not declarating it properly will cause a crash
due to sizeof(int) < sizeof(char *), thus losing significant bits.

Andreas.

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References:
- ctime declaration in libgcc2.c
  - From: Richard Kenner
- Re: ctime declaration in libgcc2.c
  - From: Richard Henderson

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