Re: [ft-devel] Warnings with -Wcast-qual, -Wcast-align and -Wunused-parameter enabled

[Werner LEMBERG]

> With the warnings -Wcast-qual, -Wcast-align enabled the compiler
> (clang as well as GCC) prints out a slew of warnings especially of
> the former type.

Currently, both `-Wcast-qual' and `-Wcast-align' are not taken into
account.  We try hard to make `-Wall' run without warnings, however,
the two additional warning flags are not part of it.

> Also I get a few -Wunused-parameter warnings.

Really?  I don't get this.  Please elaborate.

> On gcc I remember additionally getting some warnings about shadowing
> global symbols, but I might be mistaken.

Ditto.

> Right now I’m tempted to turn off the default -Werror for the build
> process or disable said warnings, but it is probably better not to
> if I can avoid it.

Patches are welcomed that don't uglify the source code.


    Werner