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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:50:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: btokup() macro in sys/malloc.h
Message-ID:  <199901280650.WAA24262@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901280540.WAA26288@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 27, 99 10:40:16 pm"

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Nate Williams writes:
> > 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.

Well, I respectfully disagree with that. If you're "fixing" warnings
by hiding them, then the problem is with the programmer, not the
compiler.

-Archie

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