When building open-source software, it is not unusual to see a few compiler warnings - usually deprecated code. There's quite a lot of them in Sage.
But looking at lcalc, the code seems particularly poor, with lots of unused variables & deprecated code. It does not exactly inspire confidence in Sage. I don't know how it possible to check code core correctness under such circumstances. tmp_x is unused. I thought that would be defined in a C or C++ file, not a header file. Lfind_zeros.h It's actually normal practice to have code in C and C++ files, not header files. Functions are declared to return values, but do not do so. 'missing_data' is unused. Is that since it's not needed, or because the author forget to use it, so the code is unstable? There are reports of "deprecated or antiquated header which may be removed without further notice at a future date". Unfortunately, lcalc was the part of Sage I intended using - now I think I will look at other software. Hopefully some high quality open-source software. Parts of the code are quite well commented, but other parts have few if any comments. This has rather put me off. Anne -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
