[vdr] Re: @Klaus Schmidinger: Suggestion for -O options in plugin-makefiles

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:14 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: @Klaus Schmidinger: Suggestion for -O options in
> plugin-makefiles
> 
> > Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > Another point is that some plugin-developers produce non-ISO-compliant
> code
> > > (e.g. using GCC 3.0.x) causing problems with GCC 3.2. So I'd suggest to
> put
> > > a "--pedantic-errors" into the Makefile-CFLAGS. This way they'll realize
> > > what they're doing.
> >
> > That causes error messages like
> >
> > tools.h:27: ANSI C does not allow macro with variable arguments
> >
> > tools.h:23: ANSI C++ does not support `long long'
> >
> > channels.c:330: ANSI C does not support the `a' flag
> >
> > vdr.c:504: ANSI C++ forbids range expressions in switch statement
> >
> > (at least with my gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)). And I don't want
> > to give up on these...
> >
> 
> No one wants you to give up your compiler.

I wasn't talking about the _compiler_. I _did_ mean the things it complaied about!

> It's the code not being
> ISO-standard. The sense of a standard is to keep compatibility (I get a lot
> of warnings with GCC3.2). And GCC 3.2 is pedantic to keep the standard as
> violations can cause bugs and memory leaks ...
> 
> That means that code won't compile with future versions of more
> ISO-compliant compilers. And more ISO-compliance is the aim of GNU GCC.

But these things are IMHO rather useful - so why drop them?
As long as there is a way to have them (even if this means to set some
option that allows "non-ISO-code") I intend to use them.

Klaus
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