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Re: GCC warnings for unused global variables
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:51:34AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
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> > [stuff]
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> [other stuff]
Isn't there some more productive discussion we could all be having?
A -Wsomething patch has been proposed. Why not talk about actual concrete
code? (I'm way behind in the gcc-patches list.)
Tangentially related:
I went 'round the cubicles and made some informal queries here. The typical
reaction I got was a "wtf?" look.
My users tell me that if -Wall starts bitching at them about their rcsid
strings, which have been there with no problems for years -- in one humorous
case, the code is older than its current maintainer -- they will drop GCC
like a hot potato.
They're fine with putting it in -Wextra/-W, because that typically isn't
used "by default" on a project here, and when they add -W by hand, they can
add appropriate -Wno-* options at the same time.
Phil
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