I just down-loaded the source for libldap 3.2, and when compiling
the code for Windows 3.1, I get quite a few warnings.
(This has perhaps been as issue here before, but I have just
subscribed to this mailing list.)
The warnings are generated when longs are assigned to ints.
int's are on 16-bit platforms, just 16-bits, but on any standard
unix-platform an int should be 32-bits. On the other hand, a long is
always 32-bit, both on Windows and Unix-machines. Alas, the warnings
occur because a 32-bit int could very well "overflow" a 16-bit int!
Now, I have a few questions:
- Does anybody know if these warnings COULD give me trouble?
- If they are potiential sources of problems: does anybody have
a solution?
- I would myself try to change the "culprit" code to make the
variables that are currently "int" to "long int". A bad idea?
Nils Andreas Thommesen
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