RE: Another gcc 6 warning message

From: James E Keenan 
> On 02/12/2017 12:22 AM, Karl Williamson wrote:
> > inflate.c: In function ‘long int inflateMark(z_streamp)’:
> > inflate.c:1507:54: warning: left shift of negative value 
> > [-Wshift-negative-value]
> >      if (strm == Z_NULL || strm->state == Z_NULL) return -1L << 16;
> 
> Is this the same one previously detected by clang on FreeBSD-11, e.g.,
> 
> http://perl5.test-smoke.org/report/53903
> 
> Addressed by upstream CPAN author:
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=119580
> 
> We simply have to decide at what point we merge Compress-Raw-Zlib and its sister distros into blead.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
 
As it happens, I've just finished uploading a refresh of the compression modules to address a few more of these compilation warnings, plus it adds support to allow building with the latest version of zlib (anything > 1.2.8).

Might want to leave it a few days before merging

Paul

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