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Re: Joy with new GCC 3.3 warnings -- HTF to shut them up?
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: jbuck at synopsys dot com, kcook34 at ford dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, obrien at freebsd dot org
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 23:17:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Joy with new GCC 3.3 warnings -- HTF to shut them up?
> I think it was a mistake for gcc to make this change, in fact, one can
> argue that it is a regression (in that there doesn't appear to be a
> way to write a conforming C program that uses this standard means of
> getting a version identifier into the object file without producing a
> warning).
Any useful warning that is added to GCC is almost certainly to cause at
least one case of such a "regression", so if you decide that is reason
not to add it, then you essentially have a policy of adding no useful
new warnings.