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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:03:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: btokup() macro in sys/malloc.h
Message-ID:  <199901280603.WAA93627@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <199901280222.VAA14212@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199901280229.SAA20207@bubba.whistle.com> <199901280540.WAA26288@mt.sri.com>

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:> then we need to update sytle(9) to reflect that.
:> 
:> In fact, style(9) should say:
:> 
:>   If at all possible, your code should compile without warnings
:>   when the gcc -Wall flag is given.
:
:I disagree.  As has been shown many times in the past (and I suspect the
:down-under constituent will show that at least a couple of the
:'warnings' fixes will be wrong and hide bogus code), making -Wall a goal
:causes people to cover up bad code with bad casts and such.
:
:'-Wall' is *NOT* a good design goal.

    Nonsense.  -Wall does *NOT* contribute to a bad programmer programming
    badly, and I found at least three fairly serious mistakes when I turned
    it on.

    I mean, come on... by your argument the compiler might as well give up
    and not bother warning you about anything!

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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