protoize.c not ISO C

[Kaveh R. Ghazi]

 > From: Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>
 > 
 > protoize.c does arithmetic on void * pointers.  This happens in
 > safe_read and safe_write.  I think this is a gcc misfeature that we
 > shouldn't be using in the gcc sources.  The current code is
 > accidentally using this misfeature because of a prototyping change.
 > 
 > This won't show up in a normal make all-bootstrap build, but if you
 > try to do a make all-gcc using an ISO C compiler you will see it.  I
 > did this on irix6 using the SGI C compiler.
 > 
 > Jim


Fixed.  I also added -Wpointer-arith to my extended warning builds so
I'll be able to catch this in the future.

		--Kaveh


Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/egcs/gcc/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.4719
diff -u -p -r1.4719 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog	1999/10/16 08:54:07	1.4719
+++ ChangeLog	1999/10/16 15:30:55
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Oct 16 11:29:14 1999  Kaveh R. Ghazi  <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
+
+	* protoize.c (safe_read, safe_write): Avoid the gcc extension of
+	using arithmetic on void pointers.
+
 Sat Oct 16 02:48:22 1999  Jeffrey A Law  (law@cygnus.com)
 
 	* haifa-sched.c (compute_block_forward_dependencies): Only check
Index: protoize.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/egcs/gcc/protoize.c,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -p -r1.44 protoize.c
--- protoize.c	1999/09/10 20:03:36	1.44
+++ protoize.c	1999/10/16 15:30:58
@@ -617,7 +617,8 @@ safe_read (desc, ptr, len)
       }
     if (nchars == 0)
       break;
-    ptr += nchars;
+    /* Arithmetic on void pointers is a gcc extention.  */
+    ptr = (char *) ptr + nchars;
     left -= nchars;
   }
   return len - left;
@@ -646,7 +647,8 @@ safe_write (desc, ptr, len, out_fname)
 		pname, shortpath (NULL, out_fname), xstrerror (errno_val));
 	return;
       }
-    ptr += written;
+    /* Arithmetic on void pointers is a gcc extention.  */
+    ptr = (char *) ptr + written;
     len -= written;
   }
 }