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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo index 4a75c26..34e75e2 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo @@ -6339,13 +6339,12 @@ Since @value{GDBN} uses the @code{format printf} attribute on all @code{printf} like functions this checks not just @code{printf} calls but also calls to functions such as @code{fprintf_unfiltered}. -@item -Wno-pointer-sign -In version 4.0, GCC began warning about pointer argument passing or -assignment even when the source and destination differed only in -signedness. However, most @value{GDBN} code doesn't distinguish -carefully between @code{char} and @code{unsigned char}. In early 2006 -the @value{GDBN} developers decided correcting these warnings wasn't -worth the time it would take. +@item -Wpointer-sign +This helps make sure @value{GDBN} code uses @code{gdb_byte} which is +really @code{unsigned char} for raw bytes instead of @code{char}, +whose signness is host-dependent. @sc{gcc} enables this with +@code{-Wall} since version 4.0. We enable it explicitly too to be +decoupled from future @sc{gcc} (or other compiler)'s defaults. @item -Wno-unused-parameter Due to the way that @value{GDBN} is implemented many functions have |