[mythtv-users] anyone use wizd w/ mythtv?

Tim Fenn fenn at stanford.edu
Thu Oct 20 13:46:54 EDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:34:58AM -0500, David Schmidt wrote:
> Well, if they truly are all that same error message ("pointer targets
> ... differ in signedness"), you can safely ignore them.  strcpy is the
> string copy function.  In C/C++, strings are groups of characters, and
> characters are actually a numeric type and can thus be signed or
> unsigned.  When we are treating them like 'a' 'b' 'c' instead of
> (ASCII) 97, 98, 99, it sign really doesn't matter.
> 
> Unfortunately, the default signed or unsigned for characters (if the
> programmer doesn't specify) varies between compilers (especially older
> ones).  Most likely, the programmer is passing signed/unsigned
> (possibly by default) strings to the function, but g++ thinks it
> should be unsigned/signed.
> 
> So you are likely ok.
> 
> By the way, I've never used wizd.
> 
> On 10/19/05, Reza Naima <reza at reza.net> wrote:
> > I got a linkplayer2 and I'm trying to get wizd setup on the backend, but
> > all the docs seem to be in japanese and the google translator doesn't
> > seem to do a good job.  I did follow the dogs as well as I could, but it
> > seems that the wisd souce i have is compiled for the wrong endian as I
> > got tons of erros like this one :
> >
> > source/wizd_thumbnail.c:737: warning: pointer targets in passing
> > argument 1 of 'strcpy' differ in signedness
> >
> > It did compile, but I really dont trust it.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to any docs, or have any info that might help?
> >

I've given up on the "official" wizd, I use a hacked version
specifically for the LP2:

http://www.geocities.com/flipflop7146/wizd.html

never had any problems with it.

HTH,
Tim

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