Subject: Re: a libssh2 release soon

Re: a libssh2 release soon

From: Steven Van Ingelgem <steven_at_vaningelgem.be>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:39:24 +0200

With the attached patch, I don't have any errors/warnings on:
- MinGW (gcc v4.4.0)
- Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 (gcc v4.3.2)
- Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.5.7 BuildVersion: 9J61 (gcc v4.0.1)

I would be happy if someone could try it out on Visual Studio...

2009/7/28 Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>

> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Steven Van Ingelgem wrote:
>
> -Werror is of course your choice. libssh2 does not build warning free so I
>>> wouldn't use that...
>>>
>>
> It should build free of warnings ;-)
>>
>
> Yes I agree. It is mentioned as a TODO item, but the API is in fact
> designed in such a way that can't compile warning-free with strict compiler
> options. It mixes object and function pointers. We can't fix that without
> breaking the ABI so it won't be done completely until the next soname bump.
>
> This is how MinGW defines "FD_SET":
>>
>> typedef u_int SOCKET;
>>
>> #define FD_SETSIZE 64
>>
>> typedef struct fd_set {
>> u_int fd_count;
>> SOCKET fd_array[FD_SETSIZE];
>> } fd_set;
>>
>
> Right, so this is then related to how we use 'int' for sockets internally
> when we should rather switch to a separate type to deal with systems having
> different signedness of the type. I've added a mention in the TODO for this.
> If you're interested in working on this I'll be happy to get a patch to
> apply after 1.2...
>
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2009-07-28