Re: compilation warnings

[Marius Vollmer]

address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:

> If I use the "-Wwrite-strings -Wshadow" options for gcc while
> compiling an extension, I get some warnings that I think could be
> silenced:
> 
> .../smob.h:149: warning: declaration of `free' shadows a global declaration
> .../smob.h:170: warning: declaration of `free' shadows a global declaration
> .../smob.h:176: warning: declaration of `free' shadows a global declaration
> .../ports.h:233: warning: declaration of `free' shadows a global declaration
> .../numbers.h:258: warning: declaration of `div' shadows a global declaration
> .../libguile-ldap.c:169: warning: passing arg 1 of `scm_make_smob_type' 
> discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> 
> Is there some reason why scm_make_smob_type's first argument is char*
> instead of char const*?  Should I submit a patch to silence these
> warnings?

Yes, please do.  The shadow warnings seem annoying, but since there
are so few, we can just as well fix them.  I don't think using a
global name as a parameter name in a prototype can ever hurt...

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