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Re: Warnings [was: svn commit: r39805 - in trunk/subversion: svnlook tests/cmdline]

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:05:34 -0500

On Oct 7, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Julian Foad wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 08:41 -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> Julian Foad wrote:
>>> I (Julian Foad) wrote:
>>>> subversion/svnlook/main.c: In function 'do_filesize':
>>>> subversion/svnlook/main.c:1402: warning: format '%ld' expects
>>>> type 'long
>>>> int', but argument 3 has type 'svn_filesize_t'
>>>> subversion/svnlook/main.c:1390: warning: unused variable
>>>> 'stdout_stream'
>>>> subversion/svnlook/main.c:1390: warning: unused variable 'fstream'
>>>
>>> Fixed in revision 39821.
>>
>> Thanks, Julian. We have so many build warnings these days (thanks
>> to folks
>> not seeing their deprecation work through to completion) that it's
>> far too
>> easy to miss the ones you care about. :-(
>
> I turn off the deprecation warnings and nonliteral-printf-format-
> string
> warnings in my builds, with "CFLAGS="... -Wno-deprecated-declarations
> -Wno-format-nonliteral", because it doesn't seem that we intend to
> avoid
> those.
>
> I get
>
> * 40-ish "casting away const" warnings which I'd like to eliminate
> properly because such warnings are potentially very useful (quite
> often
> pointing out real problems). I have a go at some of these from time to
> time. The C language doesn't support some cases well, especially
> passing
> a "pointer-to-anything" as a baton, or writing a function that
> operates
> on a const-or-non-const target and wants to return the same kind of
> pointer.
>
> * A bunch of "case not handled in switch" warnings, which have been
> around for not too long and we could avoid.

These should be gone, as of r39824.

> * Not too many others.
>
> - Julian
>
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