Re: Another ammunition

[als@usenet.thangorodrim.de (Alexander Schreiber)]

Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:
>
>"Eric G. Miller" <egm2.NOSPAM@jps-NOSPAM.net> a �crit dans le message news: IpfQ9.4953
>> > It took a week to understand what was happenning. Would not have passed the
>> > first compilation in Ada. FWIW...
>>
>> You're right, but I'm sure gcc could have immediately diagnosed the
>> problem had you turned up the warnings ("conflicting types for...", "previous
>> declaration of ...").
>>
>Warnings were on, he just overlooked them....
>That's what makes a huge difference between a warning which is up to the good will of the compiler (and the programmer paying
>attention to it), and a *required* compile time error!

For gcc, there is always the "anal retentive mode": run it with
basically _all_ warnings turned on _and_ any warning considered as error
(aborting the compile):
-ansi -Wall -pedantic -Wtraditional -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow 
-Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wcast-qual
-Waggregate-return -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline 
-Werror -W

Forces you to fix the simple bugs to even get your code to compile
(leaving you to be more creative in creating tricky logic bugs).

Regards,
     Alex.
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