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Re: Fix warnings

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:00:44 +0200
Subject: Re: Fix warnings
References: <200209180709.g8I79eT14228@magilla.sf.frob.com>

Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

>> GCC 3.2 and using -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations to find
>> such problems.
>
> Ah, well extra warning options are sometimes not in the makefile for a
> reason.  I don't think the warnings for failing to have declared a
> prototype prior to the prototype definition of a function are really
> useful.  The changes you make to suppress those warnings just give us yet
> more error-prone duplication to wade through and have to fix up with
> duplicate changes forevermore.

>From Makeconfig:

# Extra flags to pass to GCC.
ifeq ($(all-warnings),yes)
+gccwarn := -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wcast-qual -Wbad-function-cast -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wcomment -Wcomments -Wtrigraphs -Wsign-compare -Wfloat-equal -Wmultichar

So, is the goal to get these warnings shut down eventually - or not?

Andreas
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