[FFmpeg-devel] How to handle compiler warnings

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:23:59AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 04 February 2008 at 00:18, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> [...]
> > The sense behind warnings is to point to potential bugs or code with bad
> > style. If a type of warning would always point to correct and clean code, that
> > warning should be disabled not the code changed.
> > Thus the remaining warnings could point to bugs or correct code. First one has
> > to find out which of the 2 it is. If it is a bug, the bug should be fixed. If
> > it is correct code, it should be changed so it does not generate a warning
> > unless that causes a slowdown or obfuscates the code.
> 
> Wow. Forgive the off-topic, but wow. Is this really something Michael wrote?
> Whatever it is you're doing, Michael, keep it up. ;)

I just triple checked it because i thought diego might want to copy and
paste it, or parts of it into the policy.

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