Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Prevent compiler warnings by using "stop on warnings"/"treat warnings as errors"

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Actually GCC already has a way to avoid this: "-Wno-pointer-sign".
>
> Apparently:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-01/msg00505.html
>
> someone didn't like the fact that Linux had a few thousand such warnings 
> when compiled with GCC 4.
>
> We could add that and probably cut down the number of GCC warnings by, 
> well, a few thousand.
>
> Unfortunately I can't quite seem to figure out how to (correctly) test 
> if GCC will accept the option, though.  Any ideas?
>   
Well, you can disable almost any gcc warning, but that is not the point.

It's about *fixing* warnings, not *ignoring* them :-)

Regards, ULFL