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From: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:56:33
Message-Id: CAOazyz3Vc2asCupLiWLJbHT+Nz57qmNERAXX=fTSKRY9i3RgGg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror by Fabian Groffen
1 On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 6:51 PM Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 12-09-2018 17:46:03 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
4 > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:11 PM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
5 > > With new GCC comes new warnings, and harmless as the vast majority are
6 > > they cause the build to break with Werror.
7 >
8 > To illustrate harmless:
9 > warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
10 > The warning message already has it in it that it's just a pure guess.
11
12 One that exposed a lot of unintentional fallthoughs which were fixed
13 when reporting to upstream.
14
15 Once again... we should discuss to leave -Werror when policy of
16 upstream to have no warnings and is maintaining that policy properly
17 while we at downstream may cooperate and avoid patching upstream but
18 discuss issues when found.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>