Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 21:41:24 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: ryany@pobox.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current 'make world' warnings cleanup Message-ID: <199811040541.VAA18498@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199811030323.WAA25340@cheshire.dynip.com> References: <199811030323.WAA25340@cheshire.dynip.com>
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In article <199811030323.WAA25340@cheshire.dynip.com>,
Ryan Younce <ryany@pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm not 100% certain if this is the right place to be asking this, but:
> I noticed on the FreeBSD projects page that running a make world with extra
> warnings enabled, and then clean up the warnings, although not a high priority
> project, would be a good thing to do.
>
> Well, seeing as how my count of all instances of ' warning: ' within my log
> of my most recent make world totals to about 85,000 lines, I figure this
> might be as good a place as any to burn my weekend/weeknight time.
Sounds good. Just one thing: don't fall prey to the temptation to
fix all the pointer mismatch warnings by blindly inserting casts just
to make the compiler shut up. That's a common mistake, and as often
as not it simply hides the real problem from the compiler rather than
fixing it.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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