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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software
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>>>>> "BG" == Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes:

    BG> The dig at FreeBSD was unfortunate. However, it was really
    BG> more of a dig at the C language (which truly IS a source of
    BG> serious bugs and security holes).

It sure is. But there are things that can help. For example, this kind
of error is *very* easy to spot if you use the help gcc can give you;
namely -Werror. This makes all warnings errors, which (in my opinion,
of course) is very good, since it makes people care about warnings. I
mean, seriously, if you don't care about the warning in the first
place, why didn't you use -w to suppress it?

Just my two cents.


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