Re: compile warning patches

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:16:00 -0600

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> We should also try to fix all signed/unsigned char issues or array
> indexing by char. These are often real causes to bugs.
>
> I hope to find time to address the issues indicated by SunPRO cc before
> 2.5 is released. You are welcome to help there if you like. If you, like
> me, don't have a Sun box with SunPRO cc handy then just use the SF
> compile farm which exists to aid us in issues like this.

Right. Well, I'm now getting irked (again!) by gcc's evilness
when it comes to warning output. I'll go and dig up a copy of
Digital Unix on some alpha this week to do the compiles under -
Digital Unix's compiler outputs really, really nice error messages
and warnings which show you immediately where the problem is.

Adrian
Received on Wed Oct 17 2001 - 05:16:02 MDT

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