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From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> 
> :> 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!

And for the exact antithesis of silence, TenDRA has the most wonderful warnings,
and it's a great free linter (but does its job better than standard lint),
while producing as good code as GCC most of the time. That takes not into
account once when I ran into some glaring bugs in the compilation, but at
least the warnings were correct :)

> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>
> 
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