Nate Williams writes: > > In fact, style(9) should say: > > > > If at all possible, your code should compile without warnings > > when the gcc -Wall flag is given. > > I disagree. As has been shown many times in the past (and I suspect the > down-under constituent will show that at least a couple of the > 'warnings' fixes will be wrong and hide bogus code), making -Wall a goal > causes people to cover up bad code with bad casts and such. > > '-Wall' is *NOT* a good design goal.
Well, I respectfully disagree with that. If you're "fixing" warnings by hiding them, then the problem is with the programmer, not the compiler. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
