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From:
Tim Bunce
Date:
March 16, 2000 07:19
Subject:
Re: [PATCH 5.6.0-RC1] more warnings tidy ups
Message ID:
20000316151550.D22763@ig.co.uk
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:26:05PM -0000, paul.marquess@bt.com wrote:
> 
> The BIG difference between having a "use warnings" and "-w" is that the
> former will be limited to the scope of the new module only, while "-w"
> switches warnings on everywhere. That means that anyone developing a new
> module (in this case, using the skeleton that h2xs creates) can safely
> enable warnings in their module without having to worry about the warnings
> setting of modules that they make use of or code that will call their
> module.

I have a vague memory that using the warnings pramga will make the code
use slightly more memory. It that still true (was it ever) and, if so,
what kind of typical percentage overhead is there?

Tim.

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