Re: Building with -Wall => questions

Hugh Sasse wrote:
> Having built the 1.8.5-preview4 ruby on Solaris9, I wondered if
> there was anything I could contribute before the final release.
> I've been reading Code Quality by Spinellis
> http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality/
> and saw the remarks about turning warnings on to find more edge cases.

<snip>

> And finally, should I just shut up?  Well, it probably needs asking:
> now may well be the wrong time to mention such things so close to
> 1.8.5; there may be good reasons why macros are preferred over
> functions for some platforms.  I can probably create some patches for
> many of these cases but if now is not the time, then I'll leave it 
> until later.
> 
>         Thank you,
>         Hugh
> 

I doubt you'll get anywhere with this.  I've already tried. :)

It doesn't help that gcc's warnings seem to be even more pedantic in 4.x (IMHO) 
and, in some cases, are just plain wrong (I don't have the example present but 
I've hit some weird ones).  I've found the default Sun Studio compiler warnings 
to be fairly reasonable, however.

Maybe a "recommended gcc flags" would be in order, e.g. -fno-strict-aliasing, etc.

Regards,

Dan

PS - Please, do not take this as some sort of anti-gcc rant. It's not.


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