On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:58:48PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:30:00PM -0600, Ben Siemon wrote: > > I have a suggestion for things dev people could do to help out with > > code already done. I noticed the suggestion for compiling with -Wall > > enabled. Would it serve any purpose to compile the sources with -ansi > > and or -pedantic as well? I am fairly new to FreeBSD so forgive me if > > this has alread been addressed. > > I think the todo list is dated in this area. We now compile many files > with large sets of warning flags via the WARNS variable in Makefiles. > It is useful to expand the coverage in this area, but it's not all that > trivial. It's often fairly easy to make the warning go away without > fixing the real problem the warning represented. This means that far > too many patches to raise warning levels are useless and waste developer > time. There's also the fact that such changes need to be tested on > multiple architectures because certain warnings are platform specfic. > At the least testing is needed on i386, alpha, and sparc. > I've seen an effort to remove these warnings by setting WARNS?=6 . Would this be preferable to work on, on freebsd as well? Ofcourse testing on most architectures.
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