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Date:      Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:42:20 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults make.conf
Message-ID:  <20010727214220.F1105@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <200107271623.f6RGNrx68564@freefall.freebsd.org>; from peter@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:23:53AM -0700
References:  <200107271623.f6RGNrx68564@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:23:53AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> peter       2001/07/27 09:23:53 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc/defaults         make.conf 
>   Log:
>   Take -Wconversion out of BDECFLAGS.  It is not particularly useful for
>   us anyway because it doesn't work right on the x86 and alpha.  On
>   K&R code, small ints would be promoted to int.  ANSI-C doesn't require
>   this and the small ints can be passed taking 8 or 16 bits of stack
>   space.  However, the x86 abi that we use *does* promote to 32 bit,
>   and the alpha ABI passes them in 64 bit registers so we dont have
>   that aspect of the problem here.  Losing float precision by having it
>   cast down to int because the funtion prototype specifies int is the
>   least of our problems.  -Wmissing-prototypes helps here anyway.

Thanks!

G'luck,
Peter

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