[bt-devel] good news for code strictness

Eeli Kaikkonen eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi
Sun Apr 6 11:09:16 MST 2008


On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Martin Gruner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> all compiler warnings are fixed now. There were several places where there
> were indeed problems in the code. Especially inheritance / virtual functions
> are something where the stricter checking by the compiler will be very
> helpful.
>
> For Debug and Debug_Binonly builds, "-Wall -Werror" are enabled now. This
> means that code is not allowed to produce any compiler warnings. For
> developers this may be nasty at times, but I'm convinced this will prove very
> helpful in future (find bugs before they find you).

Thanks. Actually I already noticed couple of days ago (before your
compiler flag additions) that we may have problems with virtual
functions, and tried to turn warnings on with KDevelop. I wholeheartedly
agree with you in this issue.

  Yours,
	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)



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