Re: gcc warnings

Den 16-04-2012 13:30, Byrial Jensen skrev:
> Den 16-04-2012 09:03, h.g. muller skrev:
>> At 14:35 15-4-2012 -0700, Arun Persaud wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> how about enabling "-Wall -Wno-parentheses" on master and v4.6.x? You
>>> can test the output of this by running
>>>
>>> make CFlAGS="-Wall -Wno-parentheses"
>>>
>>> ARUN
>>
>> That seems a bad idea, because it would just flood us with warnings 
>> which
>> I am dead against fixing, because it wouldmake the code unreadable.
>
> I just removed the 9 warnings of type unused-but-set-variable and the 
> 2 warnings of type unused-function that would be enabled by Arun's 
> proposal in the master branch. I totally cannot see how these removals 
> make the code more unreadable.

PS. It may be a good idea to check if the removals of unused variables 
and functions are correct. Maybe some the variables or functions should 
have been used for correct behavior of the program. If that was the 
case, the warnings were indeed useful to discover the error.