Bug#271062: /usr/include/sys/select.h: fd_set warnings in C++
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:29:20AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> Which compiler did you use? It should not be happneded with gcc/g++.
It did. I tried with g++ 3.3 and 3.4, and both give this warning. I know
g++ and gcc don't normally give warnings for the standard headers, but in
this case the problem occurs in a macro, so the actual warning is located
in the source file, not the header.
One important fact I forgot to mention is that I enable a lot of warning
options. The warning does not occur with the default configuration, but I
do get it with -Wold-style-cast. Which is otherwise a perfectly reasonable
option to use and doesn't evoke any other warnings in this 10,000-line
project.
> Plus, did you check it's OK in C++ standard?
I'm not sure there's anything to check... The macro itself is clearly
implementation-defined, the typedef (which also starts with underscors to
indicate it's implementation-private) is given just above it in the same
header file, and the comment says that, crazy as it sounds to use a signed
type for a bitmask, the type used in fd_set _must_ be a signed long. So
there's nothing I can see going wrong because of this change.
Jeroen
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