On Wednesday 17 of August 2016 18:18:23 Michele Calgaro wrote: > On 2016/08/17 09:00 AM, Sl�vek Banko wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I noticed during current builgs, on Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety) and now > > also on Debian 9 (Stretch) was changed the default compiler to GCC6. > > This brings the number of new FTBFS. That's why I started to > > concentrate on these FTBFS. Note - for this reason the packages for > > Yakkety in Preliminary Stable Builds are now inconsistent. > > > > As a first, of course, I started with tdelibs. Most were simple > > conflict signed / unsigned char or int. However, one serious problem > > is here. > > > > In the 'kjs' and 'tdehtml/ecma' is used HashEntry structure that > > contains the item 'value' of type short int - see 'kjs/lookup.h'. > > Into this item was stored values DOM::NodeFilter::ShowCode::SHOW_ALL > > = 0xFFFFFFFF (see tdehtml/dom/dom2_traversal.h) and kjs event CHANGE > > with value 32768 (see tdehtml/ecma/kjs_events.cpp). Both are > > therefore outside the range of short int. > > > > Changing the type of 'value' in HashEntry from short to long would > > apparently cause a change in ABI - kjs/lookup.h is part of the public > > includes. That's why I made the change values 0xFFFFFFFF and 32768 to > > -1. I think that GCC compilers version less than 6 will store these > > values in the same way. Therefore, I believe that the proposed patch > > would not cause problems == can be pushed. What is your opinion? > > > > Cheers > > I think the int/long values would simply be truncated when stored into > a short int, giving unpredictable values. Does -1 have any special > meaning when used in "value" field? If not, it should be safe to use > it. > > Cheers > Michele There is generated more hash tables where the 'value' has the meaning specific for each table. The tables, for which two mentioned changes concern, has no other item with the value -1. I dare to say that values even today could not be stored as anything other than -1. Any other ideas, suggestions, objections? Cheers -- Sl�vek