On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mike McCormack <mi...@ring3k.org> wrote:
> On 01/14/2013 11:15 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Enlightenment SVN
>> <no-re...@enlightenment.org> wrote:
>>> Log:
>>> efl: Avoid shadow warnings (signal -> sig)
>>>
>>>    Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mi...@atratus.org>
>>
>>
>> Though I don't care too much about changes this (and thus it's ok to
>> let it like it is now), this is instead a GCC bug.  I'm not sure what
>> is the version in which it was fixed... maybe 4.5 or 4.6.  Are you
>> using GCC 4.4?
>
> Hi Lucas,
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro
> 4.6.3-1ubuntu5).
>
> Whether it's a gcc bug or not, the point of having a warning free
> compile is to:
>
> A) show other developers that having a warning free build is valued
>
> B) help your developers find real problems exposed by warnings by
> keeping the warning noise as minimal as possible.
>
> Using -Wshadow, -Wunused-parameter, -Wunused-result and other noise
> generating warnings is a waste of time unless you're prepared to fix all
> the warnings that are shown up, especially on commonly used systems like
> Ubuntu.

except if the compiler is buggy, too. Otherwise I agree with you
(another reason why I always use -Wno-unused-parameter whenever I
can).


Lucas De Marchi

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