GNU bug report logs - #23640
25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 18:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 23640-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23640-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 20:11:53 -0400

On 5/30/2016 7:29 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> The tradition of hijacking the symbol 'lint' for GCC purposes has been
> used for many years in several GNU packages. As the problem you mention
> affects only optionally-generated warnings on non-GNU platforms, I
> suspect nobody has cared until now about the issue. Anyway, I changed
> Emacs master to use the symbol GCC_LINT instead; this should avoid the
> collision in names.

Thanks.  Closing.

Ken
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