[MPlayer-cvslog] r21631 - in trunk/libass: ass_font.c ass_fontconfig.c

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Sunday 17 December 2006 13:05, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > > Log:
> > > > Avoid "pointer targets differ in signedness" warnings.
> > >
> > > Is it really OK to just cast the warning away? Maybe you should change
> > > the data type of the variable instead.
> >
> > This data comes from strdup(), which returns char*, and is passed to
> > FcFreeTypeQueryFace(), which requires unsigned char*. It has to be
> > typecasted somewhere.
>
> No, the compiler needs to be fixed not to generate such idiotic
> warnings. Please don't obfuscate the code with ugly explicit casts to
> shut the compiler up; instead just change the warning options so that
> this stupid warning (which never indicates an error since signedness
> is a property of arithmetic operations and not of data itself!!) goes away.

Looks like a good idea. The attached patch does exactly that, reducing 
mplayer.c compilation output by 101 lines :)
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