[RFC] warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Devang Patel dpatel@apple.com
Tue Apr 19 15:17:00 GMT 2005


On Apr 18, 2005, at 9:22 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:

>>> Though of course, this doesn't mean that we can't have an option to
>>> control it.  -Wno-cast-qual doesn't seem like the right choice, as
>>> there is no user cast here.  Maybe something like -Wno-discard-
>>> qual, where -Wdiscard-qual is the default.
>>>
>>> I notice that these are pedwarns,
>>
>> In that case, we can enable it only when -pedantic is used (like many
>> pedwarns) ?
>
> You could, but in this case it's probably best to fix the code...

One can say this for most of the pedwarns :). I agree with you, but  
customer
is complaining that he is getting 55000+ such warnings.

-
Devang



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