Re: Makefile Help

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Thomas Cheng (cheng++at++VirtualPrototypes.CA)
Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:51:10 -0500 (EST)

from 'Wayne Dahl':
>
> Timothy Moore writes:
> > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:17:33 -0800
> > From: Wayne Dahl <wayne++at++coryphaeus.com>
> >
> > It's generally good practice to ignore warning messages from your
> > compiler and linker.
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > Uh, are you missing a "not" there? Does Coryphaeus follow that
> > practice in their shipping products?
> >
>
> I was being sarcastic. Anyone who ignores (turns off) warning
> messages is asking for trouble. The people who write compilers
> go to great pains to give us that information for a REASON and I
> think it's a good idea to pay attention.
>
> I appologies for poking fun at the suggestion and not making myself
> clear.
>

Of course warnings are important information to pay attention to.
I am grateful for some of these warnings ( most of the time :) ).

When I suggested that the user turn off the warnings with "-Wl,-w", it was
only because his application was running fine with no apparent errors. I
assumed that he just wanted to ignore those warnings and so I gave him a
way to turn it off.

I apologize for not being clear.

Thomas
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