Warning problems with egcs-1.1 and STL

[Alexandre Oliva]

Dirk Zoller <Dirk.Zoller@rhein-main.netsurf.de> writes:

> I consider it a nuisance when include files warn. Unfortunately when turning
> on some useful warning options, then the STL warns a lot.

This is a known bug in egcs data flow analisys code.  I believe some
people are working on fixing this problem.

>  1)  Give us pragmas to turn on/off warnings selectively.

This is being discussed in the mailing list already; take a look at
the archives.

>  2)  Print "error:" in lines which indicate errors. Not just nothing as
>       opposed to "warning:". You just can't search for that nothing!!

Mark Mitchell was reworking the error message printing mechanism;
maybe there's still time to take your suggestion into account.

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Alexandre Oliva
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