Hi, On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:48:16AM -0500, Selva Nair wrote: > But it seems it may also affect mingw builds on travis. I would resist the > temptation to add -Werror in general and to Windows cross-build in > particular.
Yeah, we're not intending to.
The plan is to have "default builds (no configure options) on Linux with
sufficiently current C compilers" warning-free. Which can be achieved
with the current code base.
> Not all warnings can be fixed easily. Often the only option is to hide the
> warning (e.g, by adding a cast) which imo is not always a good strategy.
> -Werror just forces one's hand to use tricks that hide warnings.
Right. Older systems will warn, oddball systems will warn, non-default
build options will warn (and I take one "unused global variable" warning
vs. "adding two lines #ifdef/#endif").
gert
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