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Backing out bad warning fixes

Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Sun Feb 10 15:26:00 GMT 2002 
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> Ian, if I understood you correctly these should both be OK.  I remove
> the strtoul declaration, and undo the prototyping of localtime.  OK?

Yes, I think this is fine.

> The latter nags at me but I'll do the configury after the rest of the
> problems I noted (none of which are especially important) happen to
> vanish :)  We should note that binutils is not really expected to build
> with no warnings.

Yes.  Writing a program which compiles on many different platforms
with no warnings is nearly impossible, and requires a large number of
configure tests merely for the purpose of reducing warnings.

Ian
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