[PATCH] Silence -Wpointer-to-int-cast warnings in newlib/libc/string/local.h.

Jan Dubiec <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:38:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Compiling the library for a 16-bit target results in numerous warnings
(some of which are shown below) in the mem*, str*, and several other
functions. The existing code incorrectly assumes that pointers are 32
bits wide. This patch removes that assumption and fixes the resulting
warnings.

[...]
  CC       libc/string/libc_a-memchr.o
In file included from ../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/memchr.c:35:
../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/memchr.c: In function 'memchr':
../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/local.h:24:25: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
   24 | #define UNALIGNED_X(X) ((long)(X) & (sizeof (long) - 1))
      |                         ^
../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/memchr.c:50:10: note: in expansion of macro 'UNALIGNED_X'
   50 |   while (UNALIGNED_X(src))
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~
  CC       libc/string/libc_a-memcmp.o
In file included from ../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/memcmp.c:33:
../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/memcmp.c: In function 'memcmp':
../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/local.h:33:5: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
   33 |   (((long)X & (sizeof (long) - 1)) | ((long)Y & (sizeof (long) - 1)))
      |     ^
../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/memcmp.c:63:38: note: in expansion of macro 'UNALIGNED_X_Y'
   63 |   if (!TOO_SMALL_LITTLE_BLOCK(n) && !UNALIGNED_X_Y(s1,s2))
      |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/local.h:33:39: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
   33 |   (((long)X & (sizeof (long) - 1)) | ((long)Y & (sizeof (long) - 1)))
      |                                       ^
../../../../../../../newlib/newlib/libc/string/memcmp.c:63:38: note: in expansion of macro 'UNALIGNED_X_Y'
   63 |   if (!TOO_SMALL_LITTLE_BLOCK(n) && !UNALIGNED_X_Y(s1,s2))
      |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
[...]

Signed-off-by: Jan Dubiec <[email protected]>
---
 newlib/libc/string/local.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/newlib/libc/string/local.h b/newlib/libc/string/local.h
index 012a30d16..79436ab69 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/string/local.h
+++ b/newlib/libc/string/local.h
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include <_ansi.h>
 #include <../ctype/local.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
 
 /* internal function to compute width of wide char. */
 int __wcwidth (wint_t);
@@ -17,11 +18,24 @@ int __wcwidth (wint_t);
 # define __inhibit_loop_to_libcall
 #endif
 
+#ifdef __INTPTR_TYPE__
+  #define INTPTRTYPE intptr_t
+#else
+  /* Fallback, just in case there is no intptr_t on a target... */
+  #if __SIZEOF_POINTER__ > __SIZEOF_SHORT__
+    /* 32-bit targets; the default */
+	#define INTPTRTYPE long
+  #else
+    /* 16-bit targets; we silently assume sizeof(short)==2 and sizeof(long)==4 */
+	#define INTPTRTYPE short
+  #endif
+#endif
+
 /* Nonzero if X is not aligned on a "long" boundary.
  * This macro is used to skip a few bytes to find an aligned pointer.
  * It's better to keep it as is even if _HAVE_HW_MISALIGNED_ACCESS is enabled,
  * to avoid small performance penalties (if they are not zero).  */
-#define UNALIGNED_X(X) ((long)(X) & (sizeof (long) - 1))
+#define UNALIGNED_X(X) ((long)(INTPTRTYPE)(X) & (sizeof (long) - 1))
 
 #ifdef _HAVE_HW_MISALIGNED_ACCESS
 /* Hardware performs unaligned operations with little
@@ -30,7 +44,8 @@ int __wcwidth (wint_t);
 #else /* _HAVE_HW_MISALIGNED_ACCESS */
 /* Nonzero if either X or Y is not aligned on a "long" boundary.  */
 #define UNALIGNED_X_Y(X, Y) \
-  (((long)X & (sizeof (long) - 1)) | ((long)Y & (sizeof (long) - 1)))
+  (((long)(INTPTRTYPE)X & (sizeof (long) - 1)) | \
+   ((long)(INTPTRTYPE)Y & (sizeof (long) - 1)))
 #endif /* _HAVE_HW_MISALIGNED_ACCESS */
 
 /* How many bytes are copied each iteration of the word copy loop.  */
-- 
2.54.0