From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 01:38:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA29096 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:38:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.47]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA29085 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:38:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA19783; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:37:59 -0700 From: Josh MacDonald Message-Id: <199604240837.BAA19783@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU binutils port In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Apr 1996 16:52:14 +1000." <199604120652.QAA00548@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:37:57 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > They are only warnings and many would go away if less warnings were enabled. > There would be many more if more were enabled. For the LINT kernel built on > Apr 6, the warning counts were: > > compiler warnings (lines) > -------- -------- > cc 74 > cc -Wall 2394 > gcc-2.7.2 4694 > Oh dear.... I can't beleive you're saying this, "They are only warnings". To me, it has, "My code sucks and I don't care." written all over it if you don't fix things so that they compile with no warnings and -Wall. Perhaps kernel code is a bit different, but with 4700 warnings, I'd be little scared. > Bruce