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Re: Warning policy?


On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> I'm bootstrapping EGCS under Linux, and the EGCS sources are
> generating a lot of warnings because the configuration default is to
> use "gcc -Wall".

Indeed this is the default only for the CVS and snapshot versions, not
for releases, as not to confuse ``users''.

> Are the warnings fair game for patches, or is it a configuration error
> to use "gcc -Wall" when compiling EGCS?

It is intended to find (and fix) problems. I believe that Kaveh Ghazi
<ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> has been continually working to reduce the 
number of warnings, so you might want to coordinate with him.

Gerald
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Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/


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