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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 01:57:38 +0100
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WARNS=6 changes
Message-ID:  <20030317005738.GN3819@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpbs0a95mz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <20030313192045.GG3819@elvis.mu.org> <20030316062315.GA75492@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpof4bcu8b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <xzpllzfctbx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030316234507.GK3819@elvis.mu.org> <xzpznnuq2xw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030317001100.GM3819@elvis.mu.org> <xzpbs0a95mz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> writes:
> > If you really want to see the job done fast, you could have let me
> > commit the patch I posted on arch@ to begin with.  Alternately, you
> > could show me how your patch does things better than mine, and how the
> > issues Bruce and I raised are wrong.
> 
> Bruce wants a solution where time stopped in late 1989 or early 1990.
> You want a solution which will break everything that isn't c99-ready
> yet.  I suggested a solution which will allow those parts of the tree
> which we know are safe to take advantage of GCC's c99 support without
> breaking the rest of the tree.  This is generally known as "mechanism,
> not policy".
> 
> I don't suppose you've tried to build world with -std=c99 in CFLAGS?
> I have.  It doesn't work.

You must have not read my patch correctly.  The only difference it
causes is for WARNS=6 programs.  It does not break the tree at all,
and I do have tested it.

Cheers,
Maxime

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