On Sunday 14 December 2003 16:42, Gerold Strobel wrote: > From my own little experience in C and C++ I know that a warning can turn > into a full blown error sometimes.
That depends very much on the nature of the cause, but it is true that in general warnings should be avoided. However many are caused by various compiler changes, so originally correct code may cause warnings. > Would it be of any use to report the warnings to the developers or will > they ignore it as they may have ignored them when compiling the software > themselves? I think that depends on the developers. However there are very many different compiler/glibc/arch/other dependency combinations so there is a good chance that what compiled clean for the developers doesn't for you. In that case they might want to see the warnings. > How should I report the warnings? Via bugs.gentoo.org or directly to the > software developers? Well, I don't think that many ebuild developers are even a bit interested in compiler warnings. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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