From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 18 16:54:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA10680 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:54:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA10664 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa2017996; 19 Nov 97 0:44 GMT Received: (from fhackers@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id XAA09641; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 23:33:03 GMT (envelope-from fhackers) Message-ID: <19971118233302.07610@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 23:33:02 +0000 From: James Raynard To: Jaye Mathisen Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just a note of appreciation... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Jaye Mathisen on Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 01:52:35PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 01:52:35PM -0800, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > I just wanted to thank everybody going through and cleaning up the tree > with the -Wformat, Wunused, and all those thingies. I appreciate that > sometimes it's boring. Only sometimes? :-) > Now if somebody wanted to dig deep into libc and fix those in there, Well, I spent quite a lot of time last year going through libc with an amazingly stringent set of options (*) and fixing a lot of these, mainly in stdio and gen. The only response was a couple of (reasonably constructive, to be fair) critical emails, so I gave up. Since then, I've noticed a lot more have crept in :-( Bear in mind that this the kind of job people would avoid like the plague even if they were being paid for it... (*) If anyone's sufficiently masochi^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinterested, they are -Wall -Wbad-function-cast \ -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual \ -Wchar-subscripts -Wconversion \ -Winline -Wmissing-declarations \ -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs \ -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls \ -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes \ -Wwrite-strings (snipped from a bde posting some time ago). -- In theory, theory is better than practice. In practice, it isn't. James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/