"Mike McCormack" mike@codeweavers.com wrote:
I agree that it is a bug in string.h, and that it would be better if it were fixed, but I think most people will not go to the hastle of modifying their string.h or upgrading their headers... IMO it is cleaner to not make the warnings. People who have good headers will have wine compiled with -Wpointer-arith, and can fix and warnings that they see.
I.e. are you proposing to build a potentially broken Wine binaries instead of fixing a probable source of bug? Is there a point in turning warnings on if nobody pays attention to them or even tries to get rid of them if they annoy enough?
Personally I'd rather not mess with the default header files on my system, as I'd problem screw them up, and thus screw up every program I built ;)
Complain to your distribution owner then and make them fix the bug for you.