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Re: avoid gcc compiler warning


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: avoid gcc compiler warning
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:58:41 -0600
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 9/26/2008 10:03 AM:
>>
>> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>> ../ltdl/loaders/loadlibrary.c: In function 'vm_open':
>> ../ltdl/loaders/loadlibrary.c:159: error: the address of 'wpath' will always 
>> evaluate as 'true'
>>
>> Applying this trivial patch (wchar was declared as an array):
> 
> This patch is not really defensive programming, right?
> (The declaration is a screenful away, and we've had unwary
> copying of code from one function to another before.)

Suggestions on how to approach this, then?  Maybe declare wpath with
alloca, so that it is a pointer rather than an array (MAX_PATH is 260, so
it is safe to stack allocate whether directly or via alloca)?

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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