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Re: c/3190: Re: gcc bug: complaint on %c for strftime

From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu dot org>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>, "" <Andries dot Brouwer at cwi dot nl>, "" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "" <gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:59:57 -0800
Subject: Re: c/3190: Re: gcc bug: complaint on %c for strftime
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0211262043250.12885-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk><Pine.LNX.4.50.0211261604120.19855-100000@marabou.research.att.com>

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

>> people then will be cursing anyone who now removes Y2K (and Y2.1K)
>> warnings for -Wall, assisting in proliferation of bad code, unless by
>> then there have been major improvements through other methods in the
>> ability to write correct code.
>
> Such methods do exist (windowing), and they are used already.

Windowing merely postpones the problem; it should not be encouraged.

zw

References:
- Re: c/3190: Re: gcc bug: complaint on %c for strftime
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: c/3190: Re: gcc bug: complaint on %c for strftime
  - From: Pavel Roskin

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