On 25 Sep 2004 at 19:13, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
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So these should in general not be hints, I conclude.
Perhaps. I would personally prefer hints here, since the only times that I have come across this in my own code have been when using callbacks or when experimenting. Hints are sufficient to let you see the problem, and are less problematic when you regularly use -Werror.
Sure -- when experimenting I sometimes turn off `-Werror' myself ...
(For callbacks etc., once we have an accepted mechanism, such as `Discard', one can just as well add it immediately.)
Adding hints would probably be some work (a new "infrastructure" and various checks and stuff we now have for errors and warnings). I'm not conviced this is justified ...
No sweat. I just thought this might help those who are not happy with things as they are. I am perfectly happy with the status quo ...
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