gzopen64 implicitly converted to pointer

[LaMont Jones]

Binary package hint: libtrace3

In 3.0.6-1:
Function `gzopen64' implicitly converted to pointer at libtraceio-zlib.c:53

Our automated build log filter[1] detected the problem(s) above that will
likely cause your package to segfault on 64-bit architectures (where the
size of a pointer is greater than the size of an integer.)

This is often due to a missing function prototype definition.
For more information, see [2].

Since use of implicitly converted pointers is always (eventually
and/or itermittantly) fatal to the application, they are errors.
Please correct them for your next upload.

[1] http://people.debian.org/~dannf/check-implicit-pointer-functions
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/ImplicitPointerConversions

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

LaMont,

Which build log was this error found in? I can't see this is the logs for either ia64 or amd64 for libtrace3 3.0.6-1 in Ubuntu.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Found it - for some reason this shows up in the build logs on i386 for the current version, but *not* in the build logs for the 64-bit builds. So this is a low priority to fix.

If this warning has been made a fatal error on i386 builds, not just builds on amd64/ia64, I think that should be corrected on the buildds.