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Re: -Wall in 5.8
From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
July 31, 2001 06:43
Subject:
Re: -Wall in 5.8
Message ID:
20010731084354.A120@chaos.wustl.edu
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:31:38PM +0100, Paul Marquess wrote:
> From: Jarkko Hietaniemi [mailto:jhi@iki.fi]
>
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:54:37PM +0100, Paul Marquess wrote:
> ...
> > >
> > > Whilst on the topic of the "Wall" -- is this still "work in
> > progress"? I've
> > > made a start on silencing some of my other modules and I must
> > confess, it is
> > > proving to be a lot more work than I expected.
> >
> > Well, if the -Wall looks like it will bother module authors too much,
> > we can of course turn it off for the 5.8 maintenance branch (while
> > still leaving it on for the devel branch), now that we've -Wall'ed
> > the core code. I know from experience that cleaning up code to be
> > -Wall-compliant can be painful: there's not much point inflicting -Wall
> > indiscriminately on all module authors.
>
> Perhaps a better approach would to have -Wall permanently enabled for the
> core build (including all core modules), but disabled for any subsequent
> module builds.
Yes, that would be nice(r), but it's too early in the morning for me to
think how to achieve this... maybe diddle with MakeMaker to remove the
-Wall if present...?
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