FYI, I've just pushed this: maint: avoid new sort.c warning from upcoming GCC11
gcc version 11.0.0 20201025 (experimental) warns that src/sort.c:1655:1: warning: function might be candidate for attribute \ 'pure' if it is known to return normally [-Wsuggest-attribute=pure] * src/sort.c (limfield): Mark as pure. diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c index 0163ba18a..8671ea767 100644 --- a/src/sort.c +++ b/src/sort.c @@ -1651,7 +1651,7 @@ begfield (struct line const *line, struct keyfield const *key) /* Return the limit of (a pointer to the first character after) the field in LINE specified by KEY. */ -static char * +static char * _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE limfield (struct line const *line, struct keyfield const *key) { char *ptr = line->text, *lim = ptr + line->length - 1;