Nate Williams writes: > > I hope that wording is sufficiently unoffensive to the -Wall haters. > > '-Wall haters'. That almost sounds like 'Wall-flowers' or something. :)
:-) > Agreed, but that's not the only reason I dislike '-Wall'. The other > reason is that some of the warnings enabled in -Wall are purely > stylistic, and are not even warnings. > > Making all software compile quietly with gcc -Wall means complying with > what the GNU folks thinks is the correct 'style' of writing software, > rather than having style issues ignored. In other words, you end up > making change change for the sake of change, which is silly just to > please the compiler. Yes, that's true... but on balance I (personally) find it's worth the tradeoff. On the other hand, I can't stand the GNU coding style.. -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
