Re: -Wmemsize-comparison warning on clang

Joel Brobecker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:41:29PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> The gdb-7.9 release produces a warning on clang for -Wmemsize-comparison of...
> 
> remote.c:5519:47: warning: size argument in 'strncmp' call is a
> comparison [-Wmemsize-comparison]
>               && strncmp (p, "core", strlen ("core") != 0))
>                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
> remote.c:5519:11: note: did you mean to compare the result of 'strncmp' instead?
>               && strncmp (p, "core", strlen ("core") != 0))
>                  ^                                       ~
>                                                     )
> remote.c:5519:31: note: explicitly cast the argument to size_t to
> silence this warning
>               && strncmp (p, "core", strlen ("core") != 0))
>                                      ^
>                                      (size_t)(           )

Those look like bona fide bugs in GDB's code!

-- 
Joel
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