Index: libcfa/src/concurrency/kernel.cfa
===================================================================
--- libcfa/src/concurrency/kernel.cfa	(revision 3e2b9c93dff631bddb430d876a83bcc3bafe9d16)
+++ libcfa/src/concurrency/kernel.cfa	(revision 95789be69da1e578ec7ea697904a12ffc63b0263)
@@ -519,5 +519,5 @@
 
 void kernel_abort_msg( void * kernel_data, char * abort_text, int abort_text_size ) {
-	$thread * thrd = kernel_data;
+	$thread * thrd = ( $thread * ) kernel_data;
 
 	if(thrd) {
Index: libcfa/src/concurrency/preemption.cfa
===================================================================
--- libcfa/src/concurrency/preemption.cfa	(revision 3e2b9c93dff631bddb430d876a83bcc3bafe9d16)
+++ libcfa/src/concurrency/preemption.cfa	(revision 95789be69da1e578ec7ea697904a12ffc63b0263)
@@ -482,5 +482,5 @@
 	sigset_t oldset;
 	int ret;
-	ret = pthread_sigmask(0, 0p, &oldset);
+	ret = pthread_sigmask(0, ( const sigset_t * ) 0p, &oldset);  // workaround trac#208: cast should be unnecessary
 	if(ret != 0) { abort("ERROR sigprocmask returned %d", ret); }