Trying to Eliminate Warning Message

[Bill Trautman]

Fergus,

My think on this warning was that it did more to enforce
a coding style than to provide feedback for a particular
error.  For that reason alone I would suggest keeping it
out or not making the warning enabled by default.

Bill


>From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
>To: Bill Trautman <Lhasadad@hotmail.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>Subject: Re: Trying to Eliminate Warning Message
>Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:54:32 +1000
>
>Clearly the warning can result in false positives.
>
>On the other hand, the warning can be helpful sometimes -- it can help
>the programmer to more quickly locate the cause of syntax errors.
>
>One possibility would be to display the warning *only* if the file
>being compiled contains other problems that result in compilation errors.
>In that case, the benefit of the diagnostics would be much more likely
>to outweigh the drawbacks of occaisional false positives.
>
>However, I'm not volunteering to implement this...
>
>--
>Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the 
>pursuit
>The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
>WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.




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