media-libs/libdvdnav-4.2.0: gives a QA warning under >Gentoo
Hello, I got today a warnign msg from the isntaller : QA: other QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it may exhibit random runtime failures. dvdnav.c:1175:3: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict- aliasing rules dvdnav.c:1178:5: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict- aliasing rules Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA issues directly to the upstream developers of this software. Homepage: http://dvdnav.mplayerhq.hu/ Is this a harmless/useless/... info for you ? -- MfG/Sincerely Toralf Förster pgp finger print: 7B1A 07F4 EC82 0F90 D4C2 8936 872A E508 7DB6 9DA3
I got today a warnign msg from the isntaller :
QA: other QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it may exhibit random runtime failures. dvdnav.c:1175:3: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict- aliasing rules dvdnav.c:1178:5: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict- aliasing rules Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA issues directly to the upstream developers of this software. Homepage: http://dvdnav.mplayerhq.hu/
Is this a harmless/useless/... info for you ?
It is harmless. We could probably do a better job of turning those two structs into uint32_t values so that the compiler didn't complain. If someone submitted a patch that did that, I would probably accept it ;). E -- Erik Hovland erik@hovland.org http://hovland.org/
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