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bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE |
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Date: |
Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> But I see no particular reasons to describe exceptions.
This does seem useful to state explicitly:
+ we don't
+usually care about warnings from ancient or buggy compilers, but we do
+try to pacify warnings from stable versions of GCC.
Because it has happened that people have submitted patches to pacify
ancient gcc versions, and that's not useful work.