2.5.6: a number of minor issues

jw schultz jw at pegasys.ws
Thu Oct 9 02:48:45 EST 2003


On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:03:55AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> I just picked up rsync 2.5.6 and installed it.  I haven't actually
> _used_ it for anything yet; this is entirely about a handful of minor
> issues I noticed while building it.  You may care or you may not; for
> simplicity of language (to avoid many repeated "in case you care" and
> such), the text below is written assuming you care about them all.
> 
> On a (32-bit) SPARC system, I noticed:
> 
> The code prints size_t values with %d.  This is always wrong with
> respect to signedness and often wrong with respect to size.
> 
> Several routines have unused arguments with, in most cases, no obvious
> reason for their presence.
> 
> Here are patches to fix the printf mistakes and shut the compiler
> warnings up about the unused arguments.

Thanks but 2.5.6 was released many months ago and there have
been numerous code changes (including compiler warning
cleanups) since.



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