[tex-k] One quick fix

Doug McKenna doug at mathemaesthetics.com
Sat Oct 26 23:35:43 CEST 2019


Here's a quick simple fix that doesn't involve a cast:

In the kpathsea library file "progname.c", in the routine ReadSymLink() (at file line 88 or thereabouts), is the line

  register int n = readlink (fn, sym, BSIZE);

On my system (Darwin), the header prototype for readlink() says it returns a ssize_t (basically a signed 64-bit number), so of course there's a compiler warning, because ints are still 32-bit.  But the assignment is only to a local variable, so changing the line to

  register ssize_t n = readlink (fn, sym, BSIZE);

fixes that warning (plus you can likely get rid of the register modifier without harm).  The rest of the code (4 lines or so) doesn't care about n's size.

- Doug McK.


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