gcc4 compile fixes in bugzilla.gnome #162582

[Derek Atkins]

John Ellson <ellson at research.att.com> writes:

> The majority of the casts were fixing the use of unsigned char
> (xmlChar) for libxml2
> routines versus signed char (char and gchar) in routines like strcmp.
>
> I think that restructuring the code to be more table driven could
> help, but probably won't
> completely eliminate the problem which originates from libxml2.
>
> Every cast in the patch fixed a warning message from gcc4.  I did not
> attempt any more generalized changes.

Perhaps there's a gcc4-specific compiler option to turn off those
warnings that are new-in-gcc4?

> John

-derek

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