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Re: Waddress: warn about suspicious uses of memory addresses.

From: "Manuel López-Ibáñez" <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>
To: "Dirk Mueller" <dmueller at suse dot de>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:55:58 +0000
Subject: Re: Waddress: warn about suspicious uses of memory addresses.
References: <6c33472e0702161108w23161d9aic59d8fa5d89fc39f@mail.gmail.com> <200702191422.06056.dmueller@suse.de>

On 19/02/07, Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.de> wrote:

On Friday, 16. February 2007 20:08, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

> This patch proposes a new option -Waddress to warn about suspicious
> uses of memory addresses. A follow-up patch will add again
> -Walways-true but this time actually warning for what its description
> says it should warn.

I think this is a good approach. Note that it should be backported to 4.2 imho
as well (where -Wstring-literal-comparison was introduced originally).

Thanks for your support.

I think as well that this should be backported  to 4.2 but that may be
harder to get approved.

Cheers,

Manuel.

References:
- Waddress: warn about suspicious uses of memory addresses.
  - From: Manuel López-Ibáñez
- Re: Waddress: warn about suspicious uses of memory addresses.
  - From: Dirk Mueller

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