[Gc] Gentoo QA Notice: mark_rts.c:365: warning: function returns address of local variable

[Boehm, Hans]

If you look at the corresponding source, you'll see that this is clearly intentional.  I don't know if there is a way to suppress the warning.  I think there is a gcc intrinsic to retrieve the stack pointer, which could be used when compiling with gcc.  But I'm not sure that uglifying the code is a good way to deal with such issues.

As an immediate fix, there is presumably a way to tell the build NOT to treat warnings as errors?

Hans

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gc-bounces at linux.hpl.hp.com [mailto:gc-bounces at linux.hpl.hp.com]
> On Behalf Of Dan Wallis
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 8:08 PM
> To: gc at linux.hpl.hp.com
> Subject: [Gc] Gentoo QA Notice: mark_rts.c:365: warning: function
> returns address of local variable
> 
> While installing dev-libs/boehm-gc-7.1-r1 on my Gentoo Linux system, I
> received the following notice:
> 
>  * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile
>  *            fine but exhibit random runtime failures.
>  * mark_rts.c:365: warning: function returns address of local variable
> 
>  * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA
>  * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software.
>  * Homepage: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
>  * ERROR: dev-libs/boehm-gc-7.1-r1 failed:
>  *   install aborted due to poor programming practices shown above
> 
> 
> I had a look through the archive for this list and didn't see this
> being raised before. I'm attaching a full build log, and some system
> information, which may help track down the problem.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Dan