From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: -Wall Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:54:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459868125 6146 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2016 14:55:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:55:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 16:55:05 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1anSNl-0000HQ-7t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:55:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anSNk-0004Sj-QA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anSNb-0004Kd-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anSNW-0003Yw-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:54:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49916) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anSN3-0003M8-L1; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1anSN3-0005F7-3T; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:54:21 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:22:32 +0200) 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: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202738 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] It is GNU project policy that we do NOT make our programs ugly in the name of having zero warnings in with -Wall. Such a goal is misguided. -Wall is too fussy. It warns about constructs that are entirely valid and reasonable to use. I designed it to be the most extreme pedant possible. We should not let the existence of that option dictate to us what is good C code. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.