rpm, ppc and -fsigned-char

[Mariusz Mazur]

On poniedziałek 09 maj 2005 18:19, wrobell wrote:
> $ rpm --showrc | grep fsigned-char
> optflags              : -O2 -fsigned-char%{!?nospecflags:%{?specflags:
> %{specflags}}%{?specflags_ppcpseries: %{specflags_ppcpseries}}} -11:
> optflags   -O2 -fsigned-char%{!?nospecflags:%{?specflags:
> %{specflags}}%{?specflags_ppc: %{specflags_ppc}}}
>
> As i understand it comes from rpm-rpmrc.patch.
>
> It generates a lot of noise due to char unsignedness on ppc platform.
> For example many string.h functions use just char, it defaults to singed
> char and properly written code gives warnings about signedness.
>
> Any reason to keep fsigned-char in this patch?

Afaik it's supposed to make ppc more x86ish and in turn increase the percent 
of applications that just work.

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