Bug 168210 – app-emacs/vm-7.19-r1: QA Notice about poor programming practices

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ulrich Müller 2007-02-24 08:39:07 UTC]

emerge app-emacs/vm displays the following message:

 * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile
 *            fine but exhibit random runtime failures.
 * qp-decode.c:91: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
qp-decode.c:97: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
qp-encode.c:83: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
base64-decode.c:75: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
base64-encode.c:39: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
base64-encode.c:74: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'

Attached patch fixes the problem.

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2007-02-24 08:40:03 UTC]

Created attachment 111113 [details, diff]
Proposed bugfix: vm-7.19-gcc4.patch

[Comment 2 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-02-26 08:14:24 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=111113) [edit]
> Proposed bugfix: vm-7.19-gcc4.patch

 Have you sent it upstream? Fixed in -r2.  Thanks.

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2007-02-26 09:02:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
>  Have you sent it upstream?

Not yet, but I shall do so. However, there is virtually no upstream for VM; see bug #108281 comment #0.