From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 16:57:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20893 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:57:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20886 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:57:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA12964; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:57:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma012960; Thu, 28 Jan 99 16:56:59 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id QAA07338; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:56:59 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199901290056.QAA07338@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199901290038.RAA02885@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 28, 99 05:38:09 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:56:59 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams writes: > > I hope that wording is sufficiently unoffensive to the -Wall haters. > > '-Wall haters'. That almost sounds like 'Wall-flowers' or something. :) :-) > Agreed, but that's not the only reason I dislike '-Wall'. The other > reason is that some of the warnings enabled in -Wall are purely > stylistic, and are not even warnings. > > Making all software compile quietly with gcc -Wall means complying with > what the GNU folks thinks is the correct 'style' of writing software, > rather than having style issues ignored. In other words, you end up > making change change for the sake of change, which is silly just to > please the compiler. Yes, that's true... but on balance I (personally) find it's worth the tradeoff. On the other hand, I can't stand the GNU coding style.. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message