[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Huge batch of compiler warning fixes

Hampa Hug hhug at student.ethz.ch
Tue Nov 5 00:15:43 CET 2002


Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 04 November 2002, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [...]
> > IMHO -Wall should always be followed by the options to turn
> > off particularly dumb warnings, or otherwise you don't notice the real
> > issues that could be problems because of all the false alarms.
> 
> Just to clarify: I agree with what you say above. Some warnings are
> stupid. The one you gave as an example sure is.

That's probably why this one is not enabled by -Wall. It's my
experience that in 95% of the cases where gcc (with -Wall) produces
a warning, the code is actually buggy.

Hampa



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