[PATCH] parsers: fix typing and sign issues

[Steve Borho]

On 09/09, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 22:25 +0200, Henrik Stuart wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Henrik Stuart <hg at hstuart.dk>
> > # Date 1410029932 -7200
> > #      Sat Sep 06 20:58:52 2014 +0200
> > # Node ID 41abcba2e5d08ac00abf2df5f6cbe2fe3a7e2e6e
> > # Parent  c5df4af17110838b713d6c9ec3b824fb0b6c1b33
> > parsers: fix typing and sign issues
> > 
> > Normalized the use of types in the parser to avoid signed/unsigned mismatches
> > and normalized const-ness call to free to omit warnings with both gcc and
> > Microsoft Visual C++.
> 
> > -		free(self->offsets);
> > +		free((char**)self->offsets);
> 
> Bleck. I can't get GCC to give a warning about this, can you?
> 
> It might just be better to remove the const on self->offsets, as the C
> standard really isn't up to the task of handling const-correctness on
> doubly-indirect pointers and people like me are inclined to remove
> apparently useless casts like this on sight.
> 
> (people who are curious about the language lawyer details can start
> here: http://c-faq.com/ansi/constmismatch.html )

I'm pretty sure the warnings Henrik is fixing are coming from VC9.

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Steve Borho