Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 09:10:25 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, ryany@pobox.com, (John Polstra) <jdp@polstra.com> Subject: Re: Current 'make world' warnings cleanup Message-ID: <XFMail.981104091025.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199811040611.WAA20667@bubba.whistle.com>
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On 04-Nov-98 Archie Cobbs wrote: > John Polstra writes: >> Sounds good. Just one thing: don't fall prey to the temptation to >> fix all the pointer mismatch warnings by blindly inserting casts just >> to make the compiler shut up. That's a common mistake, and as often >> as not it simply hides the real problem from the compiler rather than >> fixing it. > > Another gotcha when doing this.. often "unused variable" warnings > happen because there is a variable declared that is only used > when certain #ifdef's are true. The solution in these cases is > not to remove the variable, but to enclose it's declaration > within equivalent #ifdef's.. So in general someone forgot to put them between the appropriate definition statements right? Either by mistake or whatever... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai [trying to get his C on par] asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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