John,

I have mixed thoughts in this space. There are a number of contributions that 
the contributor clearly did not look at the warnings.
In addition, there may be cases where a warning may be ok.

Pat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Light, John J
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 2:04 PM
> To: Lankswert, Patrick; Jon A. Cruz; Keane, Erich
> Cc: iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org
> Subject: RE: [dev] warnings!
> 
> Pat,
> 
> The problem with instructing the compiler to treat errors as warnings is that 
> it
> stops the build.  I would prefer checking for any warnings over the build only
> AFTER everything builds error free.
> 
> Also, might it be better to enforce the higher warning level on resource 
> first, and
> when that gets cleaned up start on service.
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lankswert, Patrick
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 8:12 AM
> To: Light, John J; Jon A. Cruz; Keane, Erich
> Cc: iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org
> Subject: RE: [dev] warnings!
> 
> John,
> 
> I think that Jenkins only looks at the compiler exit code. I do not think 
> that we
> have instructed the compiler to treat warnings as errors... yet.
> 
> Pat
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: iotivity-dev-bounces at lists.iotivity.org [mailto:iotivity-dev-
> > bounces at lists.iotivity.org] On Behalf Of Light, John J
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 11:07 AM
> > To: Jon A. Cruz; Keane, Erich
> > Cc: iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org
> > Subject: Re: [dev] warnings!
> >
> > I wasn't complaining about the new warning level.  I was pointing out
> > the irony that we hadn't eliminated the warnings that appeared BEFORE
> > we changed the warning level.
> >
> > I'm surprised Jenkins doesn't complain about warnings.
> >
> > John
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon A. Cruz [mailto:jonc at osg.samsung.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 3:35 PM
> > To: Keane, Erich; Light, John J
> > Cc: iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org
> > Subject: Re: [dev] warnings!
> >
> > FYI, the increased warnings had already flagged at least one bug where
> > network send errors were being missed due to a check that looked at a
> > signed value being less than zero. Catching such a bug in code review
> > that should have been flagged by the compiler was the reason the lack
> > of -Wextra was noticed in the first place.
> >
> > First cleanups fixed Ubuntu 14.04 from 9.0k warnings down to 0.6k warnings.
> > Similar passes for 12.04 will follow, but as it stands builds were
> > only seeing about 2k warnings.
> >
> > The velocity on warning cleanup should fairly quickly get to the point
> > again where it is easy to spot significant issues as (or before) they are
> introduced.
> >
> >
> > On 08/03/2015 03:00 PM, Keane, Erich wrote:
> > > As far as the 'sea of non-critical warnings', you aren't wrong.
> > > However, NOW is sorta the best time to do this, since we are between
> > > releases, and it gives us as much time as possible to fix them.  All
> > > patches to fix warnings are looked on quite favorably :)
> > >
> > > -Erich
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 21:55 +0000, Light, John J wrote:
> > >> I?ve noticed a great increase in the number of warnings during build.
> > >> There have been more warnings in recently merged code, but this
> > >> lastest increase seems to be the result of ratcheting up the
> > >> warning threshold.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I suspect we are well into the territory where critical warnings
> > >> won?t be seen because they will be lost in a sea of non-critical 
> > >> warnings.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Leaving that aside, I have a coding question in this new regime.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> A C file I am modifying but didn?t write has the following code:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>     OCPersistentStorage ps = {};
> > >>
> > >>     ps.open = client_fopen;
> > >>
> > >>     ps.read = fread;
> > >>
> > >>     ps.write = fwrite;
> > >>
> > >>     ps.close = fclose;
> > >>
> > >>     ps.unlink = unlink;
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> This gets a warning about each line, like:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>     warning: missing initializer for member
> > >> 'OCPersistentStorage::open'
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I can eliminate the warnings by coding it thus:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>     OCPersistentStorage ps = { client_fopen, fread, fwrite, fclose,
> > >> unlink };
> > >>
> > >>     OCRegisterPersistentStorageHandler(&ps);
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> But this seems more fragile since the ordering matters.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Is there a C initialization method I?m missing?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> John
> > >>
> > >>
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