From: "Doug Eleveld" <deleveld AT dds DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and lint-like utility
Date: 2 Feb 2001 20:21:10 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> schreef in artikel
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> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 1 Feb 2001, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> > 
> > > If you want a 'lint' emulation, you need a whole slew of further
> > > options to GCC. Here's my personal favourite at this moment:
> > > 
> > > CFLAGS='-g -Wall -O2 \
> > >  -Dgets=DONT_USE_GETS -Dscanf=DONT_USE_SCANF -Dlint -Wtraditional
-Wshadow \
> > >  -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -Winline -W -Wstrict-prototypes \
> > >  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations'
> > 
> > And add -Werror for a good measure ;-)
> 
> I'd rather not. With this combination of -W flags, it's *extremely* hard
> to get by without a single warning. Adding -Werror, here, would over-do

It depends really.  Almost all my sources compile with -Wall -W -pedantic
and I get 0 warnings.  It really help you understand the code that you are 
writing. I make sure I address every warning.

Doug