4 Jan
2023
4 Jan
'23
2:21 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Jan 2023, Warner Losh wrote:
Not all fixes to appease warnings fix anything. But
enough do that it's
worth it.
I consider warnings to be potential errors, and act accordingly; one place
where I worked insisted that code could not be checked in unless it passed
"-Wall" (no guarantee of course, but a good start).
The one caveat here is that people must understand the
warning and that
any change makes things better. There is nothing worse than just tossing
a cast in to brute force it, only to later discover it's the wrong cast
or you needed a different semantic change.
Yeah, that's just painting over the cracks; it's like replacing a fuse
that keeps blowing, or rebooting a box without fixing the bug (what I call
the M$ Solution).
-- Dave