GNU bug report logs - #77301
Is this a bug?

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Package: grep;

Reported by: George R Goffe <grgoffe <at> yahoo.com>

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 06:33:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 77301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "David G. Pickett" <dgpickett <at> aol.com>,
 "arnold <at> skeeve.com" <arnold <at> skeeve.com>,
 "Dale R. Worley" <dale.worley <at> comcast.net>
Cc: "grgoffe <at> yahoo.com" <grgoffe <at> yahoo.com>,
 "77301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <77301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#77301: Is this a bug?
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:53:16 -0600

On 3/28/25 11:14, David G. Pickett via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
> there was a specific clause in the C standard
> for that case, saying that it was OK

That clause is still there, and so the code is valid C code. However, 
GCC warns about it anyway. We've changed grep (in savannah master) so 
that GCC no longer warns.
This bug report was last modified 54 days ago.

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