Re: gettext - and aspell

[Mads Martin Joergensen]

* Bruno Haible <address@hidden> [Apr 04. 2005 20:53]:
> Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
> > Casting pointers to int is a bad idea on many 64-bit systems since int
> > is 32-bit.
> 
> Did you have a problem (error, failure or so) with the existing code?
> If so, which one, and under which conditions (`uname -a`,
> `echo $CC $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS`)?
> 
> > Here's a patch (agian 0.14.3) to correct this.
> 
> Thanks, but the patch looks like a nop, since the affected code is inside
> an AC_TRY_LINK, i.e. it is never executed.

It's with gcc-4 on x86_64, and with the above patch (also inside
archives.tar.gz) it now works and compiles. The one triggering was
aspell.

 conftest.cc: In function 'int main()':
 conftest.cc:35: error: cast from 'char*' to 'int' loses precision
 configure:20850: $? = 1

The line in question:
| return (int) gettext ("") + _nl_msg_cat_cntr + *_nl_domain_bindings

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