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Re: RFC: Named warnings
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:33:49 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: RFC: Named warnings
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> So, in favor of numbers:
>
> - They're shorter.
Either they're longer (md5sums of the message, or from /dev/random) or
else you likely get clashes when two patches adding new warnings are
reviewed in parallel, and both allocate the same number (if developers are
expected to take them sequentially). It should be possible for multiple
patches adding warnings to be reviewed and applied out of order (and for
people to distribute patches not intended to be included in GCC CVS, and
users to apply multiple such patches without conflicts).
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk