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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, 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.

I saw some statistics done by ATT or someone like that where they found
that code with a lot of unused variables was significantly more likely to
have bugs than code without unused variables. 
 
> It gives me a warm fuzzy to have warning-free builds...

Right!  You don't get the feeling the code is being neglected.

> Now if somebody wanted to dig deep into libc and fix those in there,
> buildworld could border on an orgiastic experience...