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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:06:56 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile
Message-ID:  <402C2330.90304@acm.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpznbodbo6.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200402120411.i1C4Bf8U036349@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpznbodbo6.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
>>  Log:
>>  libarchive itself is now completely clean at WARNS=10 on all architectures.
>>  
>>  Unfortunately, the stock zlib.h is not:
>>    line 885: 'err' parameter shadows global 'err' definition from <err.h>
> 
> 
> This is trivial to fix, if we're willing to take zlib.h off the vendor
> branch or manage to convince Gailly to take our patch.

 From the FAQ list at gzip.org/zlib:
 >
> 33. I get this or that compiler or source-code scanner warning when I crank it
>     up to maximally-pendantic. Can't you guys write proper code?
> 
>     Many years ago, we gave up attempting to avoid warnings on every compiler
>     in the universe. It just got to be a waste of time, and some compilers
>     were downright silly. So now, we simply make sure that the code always
>     works.

We can certainly send them some patches,
but I'm not going to expect too much.

Tim




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