Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

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On 02/15/2007 08:02 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:


Think of it this way: in science, a theory is proven to be bad by a
single undeniable fact just showing that it's wrong.

The same is largely true of a warning. If the warning sometimes
happens for code that is perfectly fine, the warning is bad.
Slight difference; if a compulsory warning sometimes happens for code that is perfectly fine, the warning is bad. I do want to be _able_ to get as many warnings as a compiler can muster though.
Given char's special nature, shouldn't the conclusion of this thread have long been simply that gcc needs -Wno-char-pointer-sign? (with whatever default, as far as I'm concerned). 

Rene.
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