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Re: pointer <-> integer conversion warnings (bogus -Wall warnings)

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2002, Tom Lord <lord@emf.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>"contact the steering committee by posting on the gcc list"
>>is utter garbage.
> 
> 
> The steering committee makes no technical decisions.  It makes
> political decisions.  You're bringing up a technical issue, so the SC
> has no business here.

Yes and no.  Sometimes a technical decision becomes a political one.
For example if there is no consensus among senior developers/maintainers
on an important design issue, I guess the SC might be forced to vote on
a technical issue.  I can't off-hand recall a case that has happened.
-- 
	--Per Bothner
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