Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 2:33 PM -0500 3/8/03, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > >By adding that #warning, you are going to have a compile-time error > >on some compilers, whether or not you want it. Hiding it inside of > >an #if/#endif will help for some compilers, but not on all of them. > > Er, I should note that I do like the idea of using #warnings for > some things. All I meant to say was that I would not waste my time > putting it inside of a #if __GNUC__. GNUC is not the only compiler > which understands it, and for some of the compilers which do not > understand it, you're still going to get a compile-time error even > if it's inside that #if/#endif.
That's a problem, #warning is not supposed to give a compile-time error but a compile-time warning. The point is moot for the kernel where we use -Werror, but it's very valid for userland. > By putting it inside #if __GNUC__, > you're just confusing things by making it look like the warning > itself is *because of* GCC. Maxime To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
