GNU bug report logs - #766
23.0.60; interesting warning during compilation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>

Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:05:11 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #120 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 766 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#766: 23.0.60; interesting warning during compilation
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:13:12 +0300

> Cc: 766 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
>  bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:23:29 +0200
> 
> Another option is to check whether the size of the variable is bigger  
> than four bytes.

If you mean with sizeof, then the problem is that sizeof is not a
preprocessing-time operator, so it cannot prevent the compiler from
seeing the offending code.
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