PuTTY bug gcc4-warnings

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summary: Compiling the Unix version with GCC4 generates warnings
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
priority: medium: This should be fixed one day.
present-in: 0.58
fixed-in: 2007-01-10 ~097fc8b43d7b537c2f5e4c0a67533a9344491d45 (0.59)

PuTTY doesn't build cleanly using GCC 4 on Unix because we turn on -Wall and -Werror. Most of the problems are the usual ones to do with signenedness of pointer targets. Debian bug #287960 has some details and patches.

Update: The 2007-01-10 snapshot compiled cleanly with GCC 4.1.2ish.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2016-12-27 11:40:22 +0000)