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Re: RFC: Named warnings



--On Friday, January 24, 2003 11:33:49 AM +0000 "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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

It's really not very hard.  You add to the end of an enum.  Every
now and then there's a conflict, and someone has to go first; that's
an easier merge than most and it will happen rarely.

Been there, done that.

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