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Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> that you can run, which shows that some versions of gcc don't even
> perform macro-expansion correctly.
> This version was shipped with RedHat 7.x
> 
> As you can see, the casts are !!!IGNORED!!! in gcc 2.96.

If you use cpp, you see that it is expanded.
But it still warns about it, which it shouldn't.
$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)

File a bug.

	-Thomas