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Re: Warning policy?
- To: Chip Salzenberg <chip at perlsupport dot com>
- Subject: Re: Warning policy?
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:42:24 +0100 (MET)
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
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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