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Re: [RFA] Turn on -Werror by default
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:53:21PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Sorry, but I think we've waited long enough. GCC 4 has been out for 9
> months now, so people have had plenty of time to fix issues with it.
> In fact, I think people have largely ignored its problems because we
> don't enable -Werror by default. I bet enabling it, will make people
> actually fix the problems.
What version of GCC are you using? The first of 189 GCC 4 warnings in
my builds comes from source.c (and is a little non-obvious to fix, I'm
working on it). Exactly one warning is in Linux-specific code.
I definitely object if you're going to check in a patch that makes GDB
build nowhere by default.
> If you're talking about Linux builds that fall over with -Werror even
> with older GCC versions, then there is no real excuse. GDB
> maintainers should have been compiling with -Werror for at least the
> past four years.
FYI, most of the -Werror problems in Linux builds with older compilers
are specifically fallout of fixes for the stupid GCC 4 warnings. It
_used_ to build with -Werror until mass interface changes started
breaking it.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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