From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 19 14:23:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16342 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:23:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16306 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:23:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA27183; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:23:11 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA52930; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:23:10 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:23:10 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Robert Nordier Cc: Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -Werror Message-ID: <19990119232309.B52012@bitbox.follo.net> References: <199901192108.IAA05382@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199901192134.XAA19822@ceia.nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901192134.XAA19822@ceia.nordier.com>; from Robert Nordier on Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:34:04PM +0200 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:34:04PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > People are already committing code that should be caught by -Werror: > > > > ../../netinet/if_ether.c: In function `arpresolve': ../../netinet/if_ether.c:330: warning: `la' might be used uninitialized in this function > > `la' _is_ used uninitialized in this function. > > Last I heard, folks intent on establishing -Werror as a default > option were being threatened with mayhem or worse. > > Is the point that we are nevertheless required to act "as if", at > least as far as new code is concerned? I'm planning on keeping compiling at least one of my trees with -Werror. This mean that the warnings will be fixed at _some_ level - either only locally in my tree, or globally if reasonable. I'm also thinking of whether an automated notifier would be useful (with Cc: to jkh, of course, as it was jkh that vetoed adding it to bsd.kern.mk ;-) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message