Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] The "war against warnings" - mission accomplished!

From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:59:10 +0200
Hi List!

I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the developers involved in the "virtual warning fix" party of recent days!

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I'm very pleased to notice that my "call for a warning free" Wireshark was heard and was being answered ;-)

The buildbot is now "all green" again, even with the "treat warning as error" setting in the buildbot makefiles.

To quote myself:
While I would take a look on the Win32 warnings, are the unix/linux developers willing to spend some time to remove warnings that don't appear on Win32 (or would this be a "Win32 only" show)?
I'm pleased to notice that this wasn't a "Win32 only" show!

As I did expect, some of the warnings have been fixed in a pragmatical way, e.g. disabled some warnings for the generated files by using a #pragma warning. However, this is pretty much ok for me and much better than what we had before. For most code files, a warning will emit an error now, making it much more obvious to see :-)


So I guess we now have a much better base to prevent new warnings from leak into the sources.

Our mission continues ...

Regards, ULFL

P.S: I've added a small section to the README.developer file saying that code should be warning free. P.P.S: Please excuse me already now for code with gcc warnings, as I'll usually only see the MSVC ones ...