| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Setting -Werror in CFLAGS |
| Date: | 2012-01-18 19:40:29 |
| Message-ID: | 1326915629.9180.20.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On ons, 2012-01-04 at 13:44 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I'm not thrilled about that either. Especially since they seem to be
> adding more and more warnings that are harder and harder to work
> around for issues that are less and less important. Unimportant
> warnings that are easily avoidable are not so bad, but...
>
I think the reason they add all these new warnings is that a lot of
software is of poor quality. A lot of software probably doesn't check
any return values, so they need to see those warnings. If the last 3
out of 100 are hard to fix, that might be a small price to pay.
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