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Re: Enhancement patch for cpp
- To: Dave Brolley <brolley at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Enhancement patch for cpp
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:37:12 -0500
- cc: bje at cygnus dot com, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:10:03 -0500, Dave Brolley wrote:
>
>
>Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
>> On a system configured with no TOOLINCLUDEDIR
>> or /usr/local/include (I believe this is the common case), a build with this
>> warning will get two useless messages *for each source file* - if that were
>> enabled by -Wall, you wouldn't be able to see the real warnings for the
>> noise.
>
>Looks to me like the warnings are issued once at the beginning of the
>compilation, not once for each #included file.
I meant that the warnings are repeated for each compiler invocation.
For even a small number of source (.c) files in a package, that would
get annoying fast.
zw