From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21953: Eliminate warnings in the emacs-25 release branch Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:51:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83twoh7lwl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <081tbn5g02.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <564E0708.8090600@yandex.ru> <83a8q998oe.fsf@gnu.org> <8337w191ny.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447966401 7104 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2015 20:53:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, rms@gnu.org, 21953@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 21:53:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWCb-0002iY-Cd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:53:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43999 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWCa-0004ji-PX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWCX-0004jd-Lt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:53:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWCU-0006WI-Vs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:55536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWCU-0006WD-Rm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWCU-0005VW-G0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:53:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:53:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21953 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21953-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21953.144796633521053 (code B ref 21953); Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21953) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Nov 2015 20:52:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45244 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWBj-0005TU-63 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:50383) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWBO-0005SP-DR for 21953@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NY200D00XU22O00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 21953@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:51:52 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NY200DR4XYG2L00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:51:52 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:108936 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:31:15 +0100 > Cc: John Wiegley , dgutov@yandex.ru, Richard Stallman , > 21953@debbugs.gnu.org > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Feel free to fix those, and thanks. > > I'm assuming you don't mean the "discards 'const' qualifier" warnings, but the > others... ;-) I mean whatever your itch is. I routinely examine these warnings, usually when I add some significant new code, and each time I find the warnings to be false alarms. The problem with fixing them is that either you need to sprinkle ugly casts everywhere, or you start changing declarations, and that spreads warnings like cancer through all the related code, and you end up changing too much, or hit a brick wall and use casts again. So I normally fix low-hanging fruit, and leave the rest for a rainy day. But that's me. Any changes that bring these warnings down are welcome, if you have no itches that need scratching more urgently.