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Re: [PATCH] Fix bogus function cast warning for functions with common arg subset
On Saturday 24 February 2018 03:28 AM, Martin Sebor wrote:
> In my mind that would be a perfectly reasonable approach.
> A variation on it might be to leave a new warning disabled
> in the first release, then include it in -Wextra the next
> release, and finally put it in -Wall.
>
> Unfortunately, in reality this rarely happens. Most warnings
> stay wherever they land when they're first added and only few
> are ever tightened up. Most also stay the same for many
> releases. (IME, it's not a fun or glamorous job to do the
> work it takes to turn on a disabled warning, or to tighten
> up an existing one and deal with the fallout.)
Yeah, I've thought about this a bit over the weekend and I've come to
the conclusion that silencing the warning will only hold us back
indefinitely. I'll try to fix this in the modules I'm interested in. I
withdraw this patch for now.
Thanks,
Siddhesh