On 05/05/2016 11:50 PM, Miller, Mark C. wrote: > Well, I think its probably fair to say that those warnings are not that > useful to HDF5 library *users*. They should probably be turned on *only* for > HDF5 developers (or power users).
It's not only library users that are hindered by those warnings, its also developers. I remember that, when I last hacked inside the HDF5 library, I always had a really hard time to distinguish between the preexisting warnings and the ones that were triggered by my changes. I couldn't touch a file without getting a long list of warnings during the next build, and the relevant ones had the tendency to just slip by in the endless stream. Also, I'm positive that once you allow a dozen warnings to show up on a normal full build, the fight against warnings is already lost. Only a normal warning count of *zero* has the necessary psychological effect to urge people to not trigger new warnings with their changes. With so many warnings scrolling by during a normal build, you signal to all would-be HDF5 developers that you really don't care about the warnings, and that it's normal for new code to trigger new warnings. I don't think that's the signal you want to convey. So, I think you would do good to just disable the chatty warnings, and concentrate on removing the remaining ones until you get the warning count back to zero. Then you are back in the ring. And after that, you can try to switch on and eliminate more chatty warnings one by one. It will save you a lot of development time. Just my two cents. Cheers, Nathanael Hübbe > > > > From: Hdf-forum <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Sean McBride > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Organization: Rogue Research Inc. > Reply-To: HDF Users Discussion List <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Thursday, May 5, 2016 12:50 PM > To: HDF Users Discussion List <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>, Dana Robinson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] many warnings during "make" : installation of hdf5 > 1.8.16 > > On Thu, 5 May 2016 19:17:08 +0000, Dana Robinson said: > > Those warnings are generally harmless and you see them because we have > aggressive gcc warnings turned on by default. We are working to reduce > them but it'll probably be a while before they are gone. > > > What's the point of turning on warnings that you consider generally > harmless? Especially when you don't actually fix them. It seems > counterproductive, because useful/serious warnings get lost in the noise. > > Cheers, > > -- > ____________________________________________________________ > Sean McBride, B. Eng [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com > Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://secure-web.cisco.com/1FFjYRBGkfhGfe0h2ZDQbfYwX_I3A7_PbZm1HclxQNMnaUsuVM5l3dlNsLSlnZhDvWDVpP52sAIfXToTxXHMSfYh3YrqaZ7i9nUKJ8qvxvfzUGalOds6F0Dvi14RHlS8TJ-3QBjnetSD_s0SpRkBi9kFu-HbIZyBl9vcK81b2Yh72gmdPbzU2EltagnNRIBHupKkJvDD7cTkIzsqVVNIXLfEoSwZOYO_Kj4QS-pUSXZ5PJOvVgl1t1tUmdZSXsDO5s6b0j6kCIrnWVBbzd9MJx82BDOLi929UMDtraRVNKKddtF8lqAeWrtO80BmCq5aSZuIajAKzukCM1z7zmE-wS4LNdHnGueYX2R2CAaA_mLk/http%3A%2F%2Flists.hdfgroup.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fhdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org > Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org > Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5 > -- Please be aware that the enemies of your civil rights and your freedom are on CC of all unencrypted communication. Protect yourself.
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