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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 1997 18:45:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        chad@anasazi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net rtsock.c
Message-ID:  <199707251645.SAA04680@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: Archie Cobbs's message of Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:04:24 -0700 (PDT)
References:  <9707170044.AA06065@chad.anasazi.com> <199707230204.TAA23468@bubba.whistle.com>

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> 
> [ this was on -current and -stable mailing lists; moved to -hackers ]
> 
> > Can you spell lint?  I knew that you could...
> > 
> > If FreBSD's not gonna have a Lint, folks in development mode should turn
> > on all the compiler warning flags.  Make world in the field can be much
> > less verbose.
> 
> I agree. The kernel should be compiled with -Wall from now on.
> Then maybe the warnings will get annoying enough for people to
> start fixing them (I volunteer to help). Personally, I couldn't
> function without gcc -Wall...

I am somewhat tempted to attempt to make FreeBSD lint cleanly under
flexelint - I'm guessing we could get a free license for FreeBSD use
from Gimpel.  However, after having attempted this on IIJ-PPP, I'm
getting a feeling for how much work it is going to be if done properly
- and that is a lot of work.  The only way I can think of to actually
get that done is to do it as a part of the review project, and I don't
know if everybody else would feel it was worth their time.

Other things that would be worth running against the tree are efence
and gcc w/boundschecking - neither of which I've had time to do yet,
either.

Eivind.




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