Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:28:06 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Josh MacDonald), bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GNU binutils port Message-ID: <11585.830359686@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:27:21 %2B0930." <199604241157.VAA19097@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> gcc -Wall is _pedantic_. Consider how many of the above are > "Consider parentheses around assignment used as truth value", or > "Integer used as pointer without a cast" (for use of '0' as a [legitimate] > substitute for NULL. Well, I think one needs to step back a bit at some point in any debate of this nature and ask a more fundamental question: "Just what are we trying to accomplish here?" With -Wall, I can only tell you what *I'm* trying to accomplish. What you may wish to accomplish may not jibe at all with this, and if a debate does nothing more than establish that early on then it's accomplished more than most debates. I use -Wall in order to help me find stupid bugs in my code. It's actually pretty good at this, and so I use it. In order to use it, I also add things like extra parentheses around assignment expressions (and, given that I also happen to *prefer* the: ``if ((blah = frob()) != bar)'' style, that's scarcely a hardship) and basically do whatever else I need to do to make the fool thing happy. That's just part of the price for using the tool, same as with any tool. Jordanhome | help
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