On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:14:54PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 14:41 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > > [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-05/msg00009.html > > > > So what's now with it? > > Marco can you at least say something about it? > > It would be very nice if the warnings would be more visible by default. > > Probable we can't ever use -Werror because different compilers produce > > different warnings etc. > > For example gentoo's gcc with his trampoline patch. > > I don't see any warnings in any configuration, unless more warning flags > are added (e.g. -Wconversion, which is very noisy). > > We can use -Werror by default, but make it very easy to disable. For > instance, we could have a configure option --disable-strict-warnings. > > GRUB is a bootloader; we don't want anyone's system to become unbootable > because something was miscompiled. Requiring an extra step to disable > warnings would tell users to be more careful.
I completely agree with this (both things). Except, I'd call it --disable-werror, I think it's clearer (and I vaguely recall other projects using this flag). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
