From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up a couple of compiler warnings
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 22:19:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r2zfmlda.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8c50e0e-b44e-115c-f9ba-e747f757beda@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 23 May 2017 10:36:15 -0700)
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 10:36:15 -0700
>
> > it would be more future-proof to explicitly specify -Wno...
>
> In my experience it's a waste of time to try to future-proof or to
> retrofit GCC's warnings, or Clang's for that matter. The warnings are
> too flaky and are too mutable from one version to the next. At best we
> can arrange for recent GCC to not warn on a few common configurations.
FWIW, this is my experience as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-23 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-18 20:24 [PATCH] Clean up a couple of compiler warnings Philipp Stephani
2017-05-18 20:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-19 3:48 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-19 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-19 6:55 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-19 9:31 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-21 6:07 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-21 20:00 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-21 20:33 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-23 10:17 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-23 17:36 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-23 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-05-23 19:21 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-21 20:47 ` Perry E. Metzger
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