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Date:      Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:23:10 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -Werror
Message-ID:  <19990119232309.B52012@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199901192134.XAA19822@ceia.nordier.com>; from Robert Nordier on Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:34:04PM %2B0200
References:  <199901192108.IAA05382@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199901192134.XAA19822@ceia.nordier.com>

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On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:34:04PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote:
> Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> > People are already committing code that should be caught by -Werror:
> > 
> > ../../netinet/if_ether.c: In function `arpresolve':
../../netinet/if_ether.c:330: warning: `la' might be used uninitialized in this function
> > `la' _is_ used uninitialized in this function.
> 
> Last I heard, folks intent on establishing -Werror as a default
> option were being threatened with mayhem or worse.
> 
> Is the point that we are nevertheless required to act "as if", at
> least as far as new code is concerned?

I'm planning on keeping compiling at least one of my trees with
-Werror.  This mean that the warnings will be fixed at _some_ level -
either only locally in my tree, or globally if reasonable.  I'm also
thinking of whether an automated notifier would be useful (with Cc: to
jkh, of course, as it was jkh that vetoed adding it to bsd.kern.mk ;-)

Eivind.

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