[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#790667: FTBFS with GCC 5 on arm64: error: narrowing conversion

Tue Jun 30 22:26:41 UTC 2015

Martin Michlmayr <tbm at hp.com> writes:

> This package fails to compile with GCC 5 on ARM64.

Thanks for the report!

> The error doesn't show up on amd64.

The relevant difference appears to be that plain char is signed on amd64
but unsigned on arm64.  I've committed a fix upstream:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/viewvc/v1/trunk/c%2B%2B/include/util/bitset/bmconst.h?view=log
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/viewvc/v1/trunk/c%2B%2B/include/util/bitset/bmconst.h?r1=45514&r2=67997&view=patch

Olivier, would you like to incorporate it, or should I?

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