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

From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:52:59 +0100
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> 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 ...
> 

Thanks for rousing us into action.  It had grated with me for a long
time, but I didn't have your resolve, nor Sebastian's commitment.

-- 
Regards,

Graham Bloice