Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:56:59 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) Message-ID: <199901290056.QAA07338@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199901290038.RAA02885@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 28, 99 05:38:09 pm"
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Nate Williams writes: > > I hope that wording is sufficiently unoffensive to the -Wall haters. > > '-Wall haters'. That almost sounds like 'Wall-flowers' or something. :) :-) > Agreed, but that's not the only reason I dislike '-Wall'. The other > reason is that some of the warnings enabled in -Wall are purely > stylistic, and are not even warnings. > > Making all software compile quietly with gcc -Wall means complying with > what the GNU folks thinks is the correct 'style' of writing software, > rather than having style issues ignored. In other words, you end up > making change change for the sake of change, which is silly just to > please the compiler. Yes, that's true... but on balance I (personally) find it's worth the tradeoff. On the other hand, I can't stand the GNU coding style.. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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