From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: _GL_UNUSED
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 05:57:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ior1zk6h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53322BDE.5010801@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:22:38 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> > It's OK to use _GL_UNUSED in the sources, or there's some preference
> > not to use it for some reason?
>
> The typical practice is to configure with --enable-gcc-warnings.
> Turning on all GCC warnings can cause more trouble than it cures.
At least on Windows, it does: you get gobs of useless warnings about
mismatch between signed and unsigned char pointers being passed to
some C library functions. That warning gets my vote for being the
most useless compiler warning ever invented.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-26 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-26 1:02 _GL_UNUSED Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-26 1:22 ` _GL_UNUSED Paul Eggert
2014-03-26 1:39 ` _GL_UNUSED Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-26 3:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-03-26 9:29 ` _GL_UNUSED Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-26 15:21 ` _GL_UNUSED Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-26 15:24 ` _GL_UNUSED Juanma Barranquero
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