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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:15:09 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: controversial fix or some errors breaking LINT 
Message-ID:  <20020227231509.EB2B93809@overcee.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020227225459.GY80761@elvis.mu.org> 

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [020227 14:51] wrote:
> > 
> > :
> > :ok so I leave it to other people to fix LINT
> > :I'm not going near it any more
> > 
> >     It's the responsibility of whoever added -Werror to the default
> >     compile to unbreak the tree, either by fixing the problem or by
> >     backing out his commit.
> 
> No.  Leave it in, this will benifit us all in the long run.
> 
> In fact it was the _only_ way I was able to get people clean
> up bad code at a former job and I strongly support keeping
> -Weerror enabled.

If there are files that are too hard to fix, or vendor files, or the fix
isn't clear, we should use the nowerror conf/files* flags.

It is important that we stop new warnings turning up when the compile
output is so damn large that it hides things.

I will do a pass over things now and see what I can do.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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