[FFmpeg-devel] How to handle compiler warnings

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:03:15PM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > The topic has come up again, it's time to discuss the subject.  I
> > propose to try to avoid compiler warnings as much as possible in order
> > to
> > 
> > - have cleaner code,
> > - have important warnings not be drowned out,
> > - make FFmpeg a programming textbook.
> > 
> > This does not include warning fixes that slow things down or obfuscate
> > the code, but if in doubt I personally would err on the side of fixing
> > the warning.
> > 
> IMNSHO all warnings should be fixed and warning-is-error turned on. In 
> my experience (not on ffmpeg code), that leads to 99% of trivial 
> warnings being fixed trivially, 1% being danger sign and fixed 
> trivially, and I have never found one that could only be fixed using bloat.

see libavutil/aes.c its just a little over 200 lines and causes a page of
warnings to be printed.
Its easy to fix but one has to obfuscate the code with casts. If someone
has a better idea iam all ears ...

That is besides the obvious, "patch gcc so it doesnt consider [4][4]!=[16]
and similar near identical things"

Also adding a "this causes a harmless warning" all over the place like
someone suggested doesnt seem that good for aes.c. There are too many warnings,
sometimes even 3 from a single line.

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