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Re: Inappropriate Warning Cannot Be Turned Off
- To: mrs at windriver dot com, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: Inappropriate Warning Cannot Be Turned Off
- From: David Cogen <cogen at ll dot mit dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:10:10 -0400 (EDT)
> Yes, but you didn't say why they are inappropriate. If you want to
> increase your chances at it being fixed, understand why they were put
> in, explain why the case they were put in for doesn't match the case
> in the code...
Perhaps inappropriate is the wrong word.
The warning is correct, in that what it is warning me about is exactly what
it is doing. It is "inappropriate" because what it is doing is exactly what I
would expect it to do, and the only thing that makes sense for it to do!
More in my next response.
-- DavidC