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Re: -Wimplicit_int & X11 headers
- To: Marc dot Espie at liafa1 dot liafa dot jussieu dot fr
- Subject: Re: -Wimplicit_int & X11 headers
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:13:40 -0600
- cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199804230217.EAA02439@quatramaran.ens.fr>you write:
> I don't know if this was mentionned already, but compiling X11
> programs with -Wall gives lots of spurious warnings.
>
> The trouble is that many functions in X11 don't mention a return
> type, e.g., in Xlib.h,
> extern XAddHost(
> /* ... */
> );
> so that activating -Wimplicit-int with -Wall will give rise to a
> full load of warnings.
Well, they are valid warnings -- the X11 header files are bogus.
I don't know if it's possible, but suppressing the warning if the
decl is from a system header file might be the best approach.
fixincludes is for more serious issues than this.
jeff