Re: feature request

[Michael Livshin]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> The new definition actually showed some errors, which are hopefully also
> fixed in CVS.  One compile time warning can't easily be removed without
> larger changes to the options implementation, which is currently in some
> parts quite, well, let's call it interesting :-)

perhaps one more snarf macro would be all it takes...

> Another very interesting issue came up in a private discussion with
> Michael:  When giving the compile time option -W in addition to -Wall to
> gcc, it will display quite some more usefull warning messages.  Among them
> are empty if blocks (helped me to fix a bug in ramap.c), comparisons of
> unsigned values against >= 0 (which is always true and thus indicates a
> potential signedness problem), and comparisons of signed against unsigned
> variables.  From the latter there are still quite a lot remaining, but I
> guess it doesn't make much sense to check them before we make scm_bits_t
> into an unsigned type.

want to make -W be part of the default CFLAGS?

-- 
The whole idea of modules is so separatist, anyway.  Can't we all just
get along?                                               -- Jim Blandy