[issue9586] "warning: comparison between pointer and integer" in multiprocessing build on Tiger

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

BTW, as far as I can tell from the standard (see e.g., section 6.5.9p2 of

www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

), comparison between a pointer and an integer gives undefined behaviour, except in the case where the integer can be interpreted as a null pointer constant (which is not the case here).  I'm assuming that the reason that gcc only gives a warning here rather than an error is that its general machinery can only tell that we're comparing an integer with a pointer, which *could* be valid C if that integer is 0.

So I do think this should be fixed, one way or another.

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