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Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?
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Philipp Thomas |
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Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs? |
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Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:27:17 +0200 |
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* Bruno Haible (address@hidden) [20120624 13:05]:
> Unfortunately, a majority of the users (between 50% and 90%, I got the
> impression) runs "make; make install" without "make check".
>From my impressions I'd agree that 80 to 90% onlty do make; make install.
> And many of them would also ignore a #warning.
> To catch the attention of the users and let them get in touch with us for
> porting the code, one really has to provoke a build failure.
Yes, this is definitely the case. It's the same in our open build service:
many packagers will ignore warnings during build and only react to failures.
Many portability bugs (aliasing, 32<->64 bit issues etc.) were only fixed
after we turned the compiler warnings into build failures.
Philipp
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, (continued)
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, Paul Eggert, 2012/06/10
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, Isaac Dunham, 2012/06/11
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/06/12
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, John Spencer, 2012/06/12
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, Bruno Haible, 2012/06/17
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/06/23
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, Bruno Haible, 2012/06/24
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, John Spencer, 2012/06/24
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, Paul Eggert, 2012/06/25
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?, John Spencer, 2012/06/25
- Re: Why require SLOW_BUT_NO_HACKS for stubs?,
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