Re: Baby X

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Baby X
Date	2013-08-07 07:49 +1200
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Malcolm McLean wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:19:00 PM UTC+1, Ian Collins wrote:
>> Malcolm McLean wrote:
>>
>>
>> The warnings are valid and will be generated by any conforming compiler,
>> which makes you code at best annoying and at worse useless to anyone
>> using a decent compiler.
>>
> If code has defined behaviour which is correct, then warnings are noise.
> If suppressing the warnings means putting in constructs which are likely
> to confuse, and to lead to incorrect behaviour (eg inappropriate use of
> unsigned types for values which might yield negative results intermediate
> calculations), then you've got a balanced judgement to make.

In all the cases I've seen, you don't use the depth parameter.

> The underlying problem can't be solved now, because it's too late.
> Fortunately gcc doesn't give these inappropriate warnings when invoked
> in default mode, which should be the mode you use except in special
> circumstances. These is a case for supporting people who don't want to
> compile Baby X according to the instructions, I agree, but "I didn't
> follow the instructions and it worked but gave funny messages" isn't
> an especially strong complaint.

One of the first rules of open source code is if you want people to use 
your code, make sure it compiles cleanly.

-- 
Ian Collins

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  Re: Baby X Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2013-08-04 06:04 +0000
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