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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: Standard conformance and GCC 2.3.3
- Message-ID: <9300303.1542@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Dec30.173634.15487@crd.ge.com> <1992Dec30.203555.3615@netcom.com> <1992Dec31.150047.22321@crd.ge.com> <1993Jan1.115804.23071@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:55:21 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec31.150047.22321@crd.ge.com> volpe@ausable.crd.ge.com writes:
- >+I disagree violently with the assertion that any errors one might make
- >+would necessarily result in non-standard-conformant code. Just because
- >+it's conformant doesn't mean it's intended. Anyone who says such a thing
- >+obviously never writes original code for a living, or otherwise is a
- >+complete programming God who has never made a mistake and never found
- >+lint to be the least bit useful.
- >
- >There is a big difference between using an optional tool like lint, and/or
- >having warnings which you can *ignore* at your option, and getting *hard*
- >errors from your compiler for perfectly standard conformant code.
-
- The -pedantic-errors option is (as the name implies) *optional*.
-
- >Lint is good. Warnings are good. Hard errors for perfectly standard
- >conformant code are BAD! I do not wish to have my compiler give me s**t
- >when I'm trying to port some perfectly standard conforming code. Nor do
- >I think that it should be forcing me to change such code, just to get
- >it to compile and link.
-
- It's not. All you have to change is the compiler options.
-
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