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Re: [RFA] fold-const.c warning
- To: dje at watson dot ibm dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: [RFA] fold-const.c warning
- From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:06:33 -0500 (EST)
> From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
>
> Kaveh, are you taking a special interest in these types of
> warnings again?
No, I haven't been paying much attention to warnings lately.
IMHO, the project would be well served to have a warning regression
checker similar to Geoff's testsuite checker.
In the last month, I've counted at least five bug regressions /
bootstrap failures that later traced to problems flagged by warnings
that the author ignored when creating their original patch(es).
One conceptual problem is *which* platform to run a warning checker
on, since some warnings are specific to the host and contributors
might innocently introduce warnings that don't appear on *their* host.
I say, its still better than nothing. :-)
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