From: Donal K. F. <don...@ma...> - 2003-08-11 09:56:55
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Jeff Hobbs wrote: > The default flags for Tcl and TEA have warnings act as errors on > Windows builds (not unix ones). This may have been important once > upon a time ... but do we really need it anymore? While we do > strive to not have any warnings in core builds anyway, I don't see > the value in forcing these as errors. The reason it can't be that way on Unix is that some libc headers are just so thoroughly bizarre that we can't seem to avoid (safely ignorable) warnings on them. Thinking specifically of htons() and ntohs() on some Linux distros... On the other hand, making warnings non-fatal is fine with me too. We just need to make sure that we note somewhere that warning-less builds are our goal. In some senses, warnings are just recoverable compiler errors... Donal. -- Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ don...@ma... -- Well, I'm not exactly a high-brow cineaste either. The number of Iranian movies I've seen can be counted on one hand by a guy who lost all his fingers in a tragic fax machine accident. -- Mike Kozlowski |