Re: [bug #16997] compiler warning for NSZone.m

[Patrick McFarland]

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 13:00, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> Hmm ... I started reclassifying these as category ';change request'
> rather than 'bug' and severity 'wish' rather than 'normal' since
> these are plainly not bugs, just (mostly) spurious compiler warnings.
> However, I'm not sure that's the right thing to do ...
> Should they be closed as 'invalid' instead?  I'm inclined to think it
> would be nice to change code to avoid spurious compiler warnings as a
> very low priority issue, but perhaps others feel different?

Thats a bad idea because there very well could be an actual bug there. GCC 
just doesn't randomly warn you. Its better to actually fix these, then close 
them as invalid.

Closing them as invalid, of course, would be marking them as not a bug, which 
as I just said, there may actually be buggy code there. Its better to 
actually fix the code that causes the warnings then close them thinking 
theres no bug.

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