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Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 04:47:56 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Core: build warning

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 08:15:11PM +0200, magnum wrote:
> inc.c: In function ?do_incremental_crack?:
> inc.c:478: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type

Yes, I had expected that we'd get this sort of warnings, and I was
surprised I was not getting any of them.  I still don't know why not.
For me, gcc silently omits the "offending" check from generated code.

> Here's the "offending" code:
> 
> 	if (header->count > CHARSET_SIZE)
> 		inc_format_error(charset);
> 
> Well it's not really a bug... so maybe just wrap that in #if CHARSET_SIZE < 255 to avoid the warning?

I just did.

Thanks,

Alexander

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