Subject: Re: EGCS 1.1 UPDATE rev. 4
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 08/18/1998 10:50:11
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:52:13 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > These problems are known, and "working" below does not infer that they are
 > fixed.
 > 
 > - egcs will sometimes issue "uninitialized" warnings when it shouldn't.
 >   Gross.  Looking into it; you can put "CFLAGS+=-Wno-uninitialized" in
 >   /etc/mk.conf to work around it for now until egcs is fixed.  This
 >   seems to be a problem with attribute(__noreturn__).  (thorpej@netbsd.org)

...or is simply a general problem in the flow analysis code.  Further
investigation is warranted (i.e. does it happen w/ -O0?)

 > - egcs issues warnings about "ambiguous braces" that is supposedly against
 >   KNF (I haven't checked thoroughly).  Use "CFLAGS+=-Wno-parentheses" in
 >   /etc/mk.conf to override this behavior.  This may be removed from the
 >   set of warnings issued by "-Wall".

Personally, I feel that adding the extra braces is JUST FINE (note the
changes I made don't add _all_ of them, just enough to disambiguate - is
that a word? :-)

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