[PATCH 5/5] udp.c: Add explicit cast to muffle bogus Clang warning.

Mark Wooding mdw at distorted.org.uk
Thu Sep 19 19:41:12 BST 2019


Clang is complaining (`-Wsign-compare') about the comparison between
`salen' (`socklen_t', i.e., an `int' with a false moustache) and
`size_t' (`unsigned int' in this case).  I can see that some warnings of
this kind are useful, but not this one.  The usual arithmetic
conversions apply, so `salen' is converted to `size_t'.  If it was
negative before, it's now very positive, which will trip the the
comparison and call `FAIL' -- which seems like a plausible outcome.

Muffle the warning by adding an explicit cast.  This is ugly and
pointless, though: other suggestions are welcome.

Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw at distorted.org.uk>
---
 udp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/udp.c b/udp.c
index 9be56e1..ee38d51 100644
--- a/udp.c
+++ b/udp.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static bool_t record_socket_gotaddr(struct udpcommon *uc, struct udpsock *us,
     socklen_t salen=sizeof(us->addr);
     int r=getsockname(us->fd,&us->addr.sa,&salen);
     if (r) FAIL("getsockname()");
-    if (salen>sizeof(us->addr)) { errno=0; FAIL("getsockname() length"); }
+    if ((size_t)salen>sizeof(us->addr)) { errno=0; FAIL("getsockname() length"); }
     return True;
 
  failed:
-- 
[mdw]




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