Lately, I've had the chance to cross-compile the hurd using gcc 5.3 and I've decided to fix some compiler warnings I've noticed. I'll send the patches for each sub-directory in separate emails.
boot: Fix boot.c compiler warning. * boot/boot.c: Compare header without using pointer dereferencing. diff --git a/boot/boot.c b/boot/boot.c index f688860..4dda26b 100644 --- a/boot/boot.c +++ b/boot/boot.c @@ -243,7 +243,9 @@ load_image (task_t t, } read (fd, &hdr, sizeof hdr); - if (*(Elf32_Word *) hdr.e.e_ident == *(Elf32_Word *) "\177ELF") + /* File must have magic ELF number. */ + if (hdr.e.e_ident[0] == 0177 && hdr.e.e_ident[1] == 'E' && + hdr.e.e_ident[2] == 'L' && hdr.e.e_ident[3] == 'F') { Elf32_Phdr phdrs[hdr.e.e_phnum], *ph; lseek (fd, hdr.e.e_phoff, SEEK_SET);