# Re: Warnings during build

From: Henning Meier-Geinitz (hmg-ml@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 12:35:16 PDT

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  Hi,

  On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:00:58PM +0100, Dave Hill wrote:
  > There are still a large number of compiler warnings when building
  > sane from CVS using egcs-2.91.66.

  Yes, I know. I tried to fix this in my backend but there are a lot of
  unmaintained backend I don't want to touch if it isn't absolutely
  neccessary.

  > This is with the warnings turned
  > down (if I try to build with the warnings turned up, it fails!).

  This shouldn't happen. Where does it fail? Could you send the output of make
  (or whatever fails)?

  > "unused parameter" 307

  Mostly harmless.

  > "comparison between signed and unsigned" 81

  Must be checked but mostly harmless.

  > "unused variable" 8

  Harmless.

  > "passing arg 1 of `free' discards `const' from pointer target type"
  > 8

  Mostly harmless (and I don't know how to solve this without ugly
  workarounds)

  The rest has to be investigated but I think this will be done after 1.0.3.
  I put this on the todo list (gets pretty long :-)

  Bye,
  Henning

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