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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:36:01 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Silence -Wpointer-sign warnings in hmacSHA*_fmt_plug.c

On 2012-07-05 20:26, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> On 07/05/2012 08:11 PM, magnum wrote:
>> This is in magnum-jumbo and downstream. Before Jim's alignment fix, it
>> was signed:
>> static char crypt_key[BINARY_SIZE+1];
>>
>> Your patch is likely fine, but a better fix might be to declare the
>> union member as signed.
> 
> OK, I should have checked history.

It's not for certain that this is better, I was just thinking out loud.
But now that I get to choose, I like this much better.

> Here's the other version of a possible fix.
> Compiled with gcc and clang - warnings disappeared, no new warnings.
> And it is also less code.
> 
> Unfortunately, the file name is the same as in the first version,
> because the subject has only be slightly changed at the end.

I committed this now, thanks

magnum

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