RFC: Avoiding #warning (C/C++ preprocessor extension)

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Monday 31 October 2005 23:09, Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Monday 31 October 2005 16:34, Frans Englich wrote:
> > > No, please, no "-Werror" !!! GCC keeps modifying its warnings and
> > > therefore -Werror is unsuitable for portable code.
> > >
> > > Linux has problems with each new GCC compiler version, because a few
> > > developers forces the use of -Werrror. We do not need to repeat the
> > > same error, especially that KDE is *not* supposed to compile with gcc
> > > only. (So what's good to add a gcc-isms to keep the compiler calm, just
> > > not to be able to compile the code anymore on non-gcc compiler.)
> >
> > The world is way too complex, someone should rewrite it. I who thought it
> > was even worth a try to clean up kdelibs and freeze it with -Werror :(
>
> If it helps, there was a package I tried to install some time ago that
> refused to install until I hacked the Makefiles to remove -Werror.  The
> coders hadn't anticipated the new warnings added with gcc 4.
>
> Since the gcc devs will only keep adding warnings (and why not ;),

The problem is that they change too...

> I would
> say that no release tarball should contain -Werror.  It may be useful
> during development but it would be unnecessarily painful for release.

... so you cannot even have it in development, except if everybody would use 
the same gcc version.

>
> Regards,
>  - Michael Pyne

Have a nice day!