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Eliminating compiler warnings

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Message #17 received at 23771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 23771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23771: Eliminating compiler warnings
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:41:58 -0400

On 6/15/2016 4:24 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> To clutter up the code to placate a finicky compiler is a change
> for the worse.  If the compiler is so finicky only because a special
> option asked it to be, why be massochistic?

I'm just using the warning options that are enabled by default for a 
build from a git checkout of the master branch.  In general, I think the 
warnings are useful.  But I agree that I went too far in trying to get 
rid of them all.  I'm now thinking that I should just live with the ones 
that can't be fixed without cluttering the code.  See my reply to Eli.

Ken

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