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Re: -Wold-style-cast and system headers
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: -Wold-style-cast and system headers
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at Synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 99 10:39:06 PDT
- Cc: jbuck at Synopsys dot COM, espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
> In message <199907061658.JAA06246@atrus.synopsys.com>you write:
> > > fixincludes is meant to deal with bugs in the system header files that
> > > prevent gcc from properly compiling code. fixincludes is not meant to
> > > fix bugs which cause warnings.
> >
> > It's appropriate to attempt to fix warnings that everyone will get
> > (warnings enabled by default) and possibly -Wall warnings.
> Sorry to disagree with you Joe, but no, this is not something we want to
> do. It's an enormous can of worms.
Maybe we don't want to do it any more, but we have done a certain amount
of it in the past.