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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo | 9 |
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 39b562f..c48c8f0 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-01-18 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> + + * gdbint.texinfo (Coding): Add entry for -Wno-pointer-sign to list + of warning flags. + 2006-01-13 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> * gdb.texinfo (Sequences): Improve menu annotations. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo index 3007e0a..f7d7936 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo @@ -5016,6 +5016,15 @@ switch (sched) @end smallexample @item -Wunused-function + +@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. + @end table @emph{Pragmatics: Due to the way that @value{GDBN} is implemented most |