Subject: bug#17501: closed (Re: bug#17501: ARM cast-align Error)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 00:39:03 +0000

Your bug report

#17501: ARM cast-align Error

which was filed against the grep package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#17501: ARM cast-align Error
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Nathan <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:37:51 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Nathan wrote:
> Just putting it out there that appending "-w" to CFLAGS will suppress
> werror (warnings) and "make" will finish.

Glad you found a workaround; closing the bug report.

Subject: ARM cast-align Error
From: Nathan Royce <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 14:01:53 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Similar to: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2010-10/msg00020.html"  CC       memchr.omemchr.c: In function 'rpl_memchr':memchr.c:84:18: error: cast increases required alignment of target type [-Werror=cast-align]   longword_ptr = (const longword *) char_ptr;                  ^cc1: all warnings being treated as errorsmake[3]: *** [memchr.o] Error 1"commit 3b301a71d94eec362f00905be9d2fa2b044f6f83
It was working with previous commits such as commit a46b95cb3f5a1b6e399a48cc0f554c1df1371b21