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Re: [Bug-zile] astr_cstr


From: Reuben Thomas
Subject: Re: [Bug-zile] astr_cstr
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:19:21 +0100

On 8 September 2011 07:39, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Worse, what are we to do with warnings like this though, which are spewed
> out by the compiler without additional warning flags enabled?

This is why we really need a solution. Unfortunately, all I can find
is statements that the philosophy of GCC is to the contrary (a
reaction against a tendency to separate the compiler and lint, itself
a reaction against heavyweight compilers 40 years ago). The trouble of
course is that as warnings get more sophisticated in an
unsophisticated language you're bound (as here) to get false
positives, even when you don't take under-specified 30-year-old APIs
into account.

We'll see whether we get anything out of the gnulib list. Meanwhile, I
wonder whether actually making a list of warnings to grep out of the
compiler's output might be a goer?

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