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Re: pointer <-> integer conversion warnings (bogus -Wall warnings )
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: lord at regexps dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 02 06:48:18 EST
- Subject: Re: pointer <-> integer conversion warnings (bogus -Wall warnings )
Back before the GCC steering committee, there was a formally neutral
arbiter, legally bound to operate in the public interest, who decided
questions about the evolution of the public GCC sources.
No, there wasn't.
Before the GCC steering committee was formed, I was the official maintainer
of GCC for the FSF. I made any needed decisions on my own, of course
trying to get as much consensus from the people working on the project as
possible. Theoretically, RMS or an officer of the FSF could overrule me,
but this rarely happened.
I actually have no idea what "legally bound to operate in the public
interest" might mean, but it's certainly not what *any* FSF maintainer
does. The overriding concern is the interest of the GNU project and the
free software community, not whatever "the public" might mean.
I'm also not sure what "neutral" means here. Neutral with repect to what
issue? The whole point of the SC is that the members are *not* "neutral",
but each represent a different component of the GCC user community.