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Commit: PR 22823: Fix gcc 8 compile time warnings

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 06:56:00 GMT 2018 
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 02:59:34AM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  For some host psABIs I suppose initialising a fixed-argument function 
> pointer with a variable-argument function reference and then using the 
> pointer to make a call is going to work, but this is UB AFAIK as per the C 
> language standard, so I suggest that you revert your change and look for a 
> better alternative, as the cure seems worse than the disease.
> 
>  NB I don't know where the idea of complaining about extraneous function 
> arguments has come from for GCC 8 (except maybe for `-pedantic'), as this 
> property of the C vs Pascal function calling convention has been relied on 
> since forever.

Wow, what a horrible gcc warning.  A warning for casts from a function
taking no argument, but no warning for casts from a variadic to
non-variadic function!

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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