change log for rtems (2011-12-14)

[Sebastian Huber]

I use locally -Wconversion and these changes fix some of the implicit type 
conversion problems.

On 12/14/2011 10:28 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 10:11 AM, rtems-vc at rtems.org wrote:
>> *sh*:
>> 2011-12-14 Sebastian Huber<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>
>
> [termios type changes]
>
> ... just to have mentioned it ...
>
> Sebastian, I hope you are aware, you are about to open a can of worms?
>
> Of those 5000 warnings, I recently mentioned I am observing with agressive
> CFLAGS, ca. 2000 are related to RTEMS having issues with signed<->unsigned
> conversions and unsafe implicit signed/unsigned casts.
>
> ... ca. half of these have their origin in termios ...

Yes, the integer type usage in Termios is quite suboptimal, e.g. the major and 
minor number are of type int.

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