From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up a couple of compiler warnings Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 22:19:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83r2zfmlda.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170518202450.75747-1-phst@google.com> <7631cb49-7940-7758-9ec3-5530e0ab542e@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495567237 11473 195.159.176.226 (23 May 2017 19:20:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 19:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 23 21:20:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDFM8-0002rX-NY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 21:20:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDFME-0000OG-9p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 15:20:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDFLl-00006r-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 15:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDFLi-0001Oh-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 15:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDFLi-0001Ob-9p; Tue, 23 May 2017 15:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1486 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dDFLg-0001So-Cu; Tue, 23 May 2017 15:20:05 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 23 May 2017 10:36:15 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215137 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > 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.