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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Switching off warnings
Date: 11 Mar 2006 12:13:24 GMT
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Mike C <My DOT address AT end DOT of DOT post> wrote:

> I know that I should write perfect programs that don't have this
> problem, but this is in a program that has been in slow devellopment
> for about three years, and the clashes of signedness have never been
> an issue.

... never an issue you were aware of, to be precise.  Signedness
issues on pointers are really nasty.  They're very good at sitting in
the dark, unnoticed for ages, and then when nobody expects any harm
they suddenly jump up and kick you.  They're, in a word, the perfect
booby trap for C programmers.

> The help screen tells me that I should be able to turn it off with
> "-Wno-pointer-sign", but that is not one of the options under
> Options/Compilers/Warnings.

That's because this option is newer than your RHIDE, and because the
RHIDE authors aren't clairvoyant.  But there's surely a field in RHIDE
where you can enter miscellaneous other flags, right?  So put it
there.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.