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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:36:30 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Announce: Allegro 3.1
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> > And how is a compiler to recognize an option to disable a warning which
> > won't exist until a future version?
> 
> Obviously it cannot :-) That is why I think these new warnings should
> not be enabled by default: it is easy for users of that specific
> compiler to enable them by using an extra switch, but impossible for
> them to be turned off by the authors of code that must support
> multiple compiler versions...

But that would mean that people compiling their own little projects who
want them checked fully must do something like:

gcc -c -O -Wall -W -Wfoo -Wbar -Wqux -Wfred -Wbarney -Wpeanuts
-Wgod-only-knows -Wcheese -W......

Not exactly convenient.

TANSTAAFL
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Nate Eldredge
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