Re: [PATCH 5/5] evalstring: drop volatile on sigset

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/11/16 12:12 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2016 11:45, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 8/11/16 8:30 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> These variables are located on the stack and are never read/written
>>> directly by bash.  Instead, they're all accessed indirectly via the
>>> POSIX signal API.  Since POSIX does not require volatile, and bash
>>> itself doesn't require volatile, drop the volatile markings.  If we
>>> don't, you get a lot of warnings at build time as the POSIX API does
>>> not declare the prototypes with a volatile type.
>>
>> I want the values usable across a potential longjmp() regardless of what
>> the compiler does and regardless of the underlying sigset_t type.  ISO C
>> says the value is technically undefined after a longjmp, however unlikely
>> it is that it will be modified.  volatile is the easiest way to accomplish
>> that.
> 
> then can casts be added ?  building the code w/warnings is fairly verbose
> due to this issue (generates like ~30 lines of warnings iirc).

Sure, we'll try that.

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