From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 22:03:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18912 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:03:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18899 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:03:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id WAA93627; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:03:41 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901280603.WAA93627@apollo.backplane.com> To: Nate Williams Cc: Archie Cobbs , wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup() macro in sys/malloc.h References: <199901280222.VAA14212@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199901280229.SAA20207@bubba.whistle.com> <199901280540.WAA26288@mt.sri.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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 :Nate : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message