Description of fix

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 15:26 Wed 11 May     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 05/11/2011 02:43 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On 09:44 Wed 11 May     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> >>
> >> It looks like this has been a warning in gcc since forever.  I have no
> >> idea why it generates an error on Debian, though.  So, I guess there's
> >> no more to be done, but I don't like mysteries like this: they tend to
> >> come back to bite you.
> > 
> > You already said... because HotSpot builds with -Werror.
> 
> But that doesn't explain it.  That file isn't built with -Wformat,
> which is what causes the warning.  So why does it error out on
> Debian?  Maybe Debian forces -Wall ?
> 

Ah right.  Yes I think Debian enables more warnings.  This may be why some
of the patches in IcedTea from doko are there.

> Andrew.

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