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Konstantin 'Ksee' Dmitryev (Zelgadis) wrote:
| Ohh... Well... | Maybe, but for a such lame user as me, it is not funny every time when I want to compile new program read and edit the sources. :(
Complain to the original programmer about his mistakes, ask him to issue a fixed source tree...
| Why I even can't compile older versions of gcc? They not comply standarts too?
If your compile tools are not keeping you honest, by telling you about every kind of bad thing you do[1], it is easy to do bad things when the phone rings and you have to resume with an empty brain, your teenage kid has performed a new outrage or you have a bad day. The GCC folks are mortals the same as the rest of us, in fact they probably get the ideas for new compiler tests from looking at crazy stuff they did in their own code, since that is the code they spend the most time with.
You can probably still get some GCC 2.96 version from somewhere on the net and go with that. But it is letting bad things in the code go without an error! The only way forward is to accept the new warnings and errors from the improved compiler, fix the broken code -- because that's what it actually is -- and wait for the next compiler version to shake out even more stupidness from your code. That way the compilers get better, the code you want to use gets better, the programmer learns new habits to avoid trouble...
- -Andy
[1] Which is why one should ideally use -Wall -WError to get all the warnings the compiler knows how to look for and to make them into fatal errors so you cannot be lazy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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