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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes: >> GCC 3.2 and using -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations to find >> such problems. > > Ah, well extra warning options are sometimes not in the makefile for a > reason. I don't think the warnings for failing to have declared a > prototype prior to the prototype definition of a function are really > useful. The changes you make to suppress those warnings just give us yet > more error-prone duplication to wade through and have to fix up with > duplicate changes forevermore. >From Makeconfig: # Extra flags to pass to GCC. ifeq ($(all-warnings),yes) +gccwarn := -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wcast-qual -Wbad-function-cast -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wcomment -Wcomments -Wtrigraphs -Wsign-compare -Wfloat-equal -Wmultichar So, is the goal to get these warnings shut down eventually - or not? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj
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