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Re: Backing out bad warning fixes


On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 02:27:35PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> 
> > Ian, if I understood you correctly these should both be OK.  I remove
> > the strtoul declaration, and undo the prototyping of localtime.  OK?
> 
> Yes, I think this is fine.

OK, checked in then.

> 
> > The latter nags at me but I'll do the configury after the rest of the
> > problems I noted (none of which are especially important) happen to
> > vanish :)  We should note that binutils is not really expected to build
> > with no warnings.
> 
> Yes.  Writing a program which compiles on many different platforms
> with no warnings is nearly impossible, and requires a large number of
> configure tests merely for the purpose of reducing warnings.
> 
> Ian
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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