Re: 000217: status of DJGPP support

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > >   - There are lots of warnings about comparison of signed with
> > >     unsigned and unused arguments.  I find it hard to believe that
> > >     this is specific to DJGPP: doesn't anyone else see these warnings?
> > >     No doubt they are due to -Wall, but I understand we want to go
> > >     into production with these switches, right?
> >
> > Not for 5.0.  The only warnings I consider significant for 5.0 are those
> > from:
> >
> > ,-Wimplicit\
> > ,-Wreturn-type\
> > ,-Wcomment\
> > ,-Wtrigraphs\
> > ,-Wformat\
> > ,-Wparentheses\
> > ,-Wpointer-arith\
> > ,-Woverloaded-virtual\
> 
> Does 000217 use those or something else?  Sorry, I assumed it was
> using -Wall, but I didn't actually check that (and the sources are far
> away from the place I'm typing this).  If the snapshot uses the above
> options, then the problems I saw happen with them as well.

Um, yes.  The configury at present detects GCC and then enables a very
extensive list of warnings.  I intend (if I don't forget :-) posting a
patch to instead enable just the above.

	Andrew