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Re: Warning policy?

To: Kamil Iskra <kamil at dwd dot interkom dot pl>
Subject: Re: Warning policy?
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip at perlsupport dot com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:40:45 -0500
Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
References: <199901020028.TAA04541@caip.rutgers.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.96.990102150511.2118A-100000@jinks.home>

According to Kamil Iskra:
> In my experience, unreachable code is always a result of an
> oversight on my side.

But sometimes it's a result of avoiding #ifdefs for conditional
execution, and that's not a bad thing:

   static const int debug = 0;
   /* ... */
   if (debug) { fprintf(error, "stuff\n"); }

-- 
Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "When do you work?"   "Whenever I'm not busy."

References:
- Re: Warning policy?
  - From: Kaveh R. Ghazi
- Re: Warning policy?
  - From: Kamil Iskra

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