X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <490B065D.9030704@bmts.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:21:33 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin g++ strictness References: <000201c93ac7$38265930$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <490A30C8.5000107@sh.cvut.cz> <001601c93b31$a961b940$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <003e01c93b42$e92a17a0$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <490AE8A0.8090009@sh.cvut.cz> <001a01c93b4d$617de150$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <490AF1E3.3020308@sh.cvut.cz> <007401c93b56$ebcfa510$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <490B0084.1070803@sh.cvut.cz> <008a01c93b5a$9338d300$4001a8c0@mycomputer> In-Reply-To: <008a01c93b5a$9338d300$4001a8c0@mycomputer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com John Emmas wrote: > Is there a simple solution to this? In general, no. Writing portable code is hard and requires quite a bit of thought and perhaps more importantly, experience. First, use the strictest possible warning setting on the compiler and strive for warning free compiles. Then what I'd probably do is look closely at the offending code and imagine all the ways that having incompatible types that are silently converted will break your code. Then read up on these issues on the many resources out there on the web to educate yourself on how these problems manifest themselves and how to solve them. Sorry, but it's hard work. Ralph -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/