On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 10:41 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: <snip> > Well, what I'm looking for is: > > [A] People with good ideas of tests that would improve Debian's > quality, or Free Software's quality in general > > [B] People willing to help with providing code for the tests, and > providing manpower to analyze the results, file the bugs, etc. Just > running the tests and trashing the results is useless. > > People matching both criteria are of course much more interesting for > me, since it means less work for me :-) <snip>
There's a lot of C and C++ code that plays stupid casting tricks and requires -fno-strict-aliasing to keep it working. Something I meant to do but never got round to was to investigate packages that elicit warnings about casts or use -Wno-strict-aliasing to suppress them. This requires human checking to eliminate the false warnings. More generally, where packages don't use -Wall for compiling C and C++ code, add this option and see what happens. If it produces warnings about broken code, file bugs. If it produces false warnings, disable them selectively. Then file a (minor) bug to request using the resulting warning options. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987
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