[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Compilation Warnings

rnott@LTERNET.WASHINGTON.EDU (Rudolf Nottrott) (11/06/90)

     A compilation of Andrew on a VaxStation running Ultrix 3.0, patch
level 7 from Emsworth, mostly default configuration, went without any
error messages; However, I did got the following warning messages:

 WARNING:bufferlist.ch: - long class names should use name keys 
"framecmd.c", line 87: warning: illegal pointer combination
"framecmd.c", line 88: warning: illegal pointer combination
"compchar.c", line 382: warning: illegal pointer combination
"compchar.c", line 385: warning: illegal pointer combination
"zipobj.c", line 181: warning: enumeration type clash, operator RETURN
"zipocapt.c", line 134: warning: enumeration type clash, operator =
"zipofcap.c", line 168: warning: enumeration type clash, operator =
"eval.c", line 142: warning: illegal pointer combination

     Also, the message '*.ch: No such file or directory' (without any
further comment) appeared numerous times, and so did 
'*.c: No such file or directory'  (the latter was less frequent.  

     In a first attempt, 'vui' and messages' seem to be running o.k.  

     WHAT DO I DO about these warnings?

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ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller) (11/06/90)

Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 5-Nov-90 Compilation Warnings Rudolf
Nottrott@lternet. (2102)

>  WARNING:bufferlist.ch: - long class names should use name keys 
> "framecmd.c", line 87: warning: illegal pointer combination
> "framecmd.c", line 88: warning: illegal pointer combination
> "compchar.c", line 382: warning: illegal pointer combination
> "compchar.c", line 385: warning: illegal pointer combination
> "zipobj.c", line 181: warning: enumeration type clash, operator RETURN
> "zipocapt.c", line 134: warning: enumeration type clash, operator =
> "zipofcap.c", line 168: warning: enumeration type clash, operator =
> "eval.c", line 142: warning: illegal pointer combination


These are things which may one day get fixed (most of them probably
could get fixed now, sometimes the lessor of two evil versions of C must
be used - until ANSI-C is prevelent)


> '*.c: No such file or directory' 
'*.ch: No such file or directory'

Ignore these completely - these appear simply because the dependency
generating script (andrew/config/depend.csh) needs to be able to figure
out if such files exist - and /bin/csh is noisy.

--fish