Re: Should we fix warnings from GCC 2.xx?

Andreas Schwab
2002-09-19T11:31:52Z

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

|> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Joel Brobecker wrote:
|>
|> > > tracepoint.c: In function `trace_find_tracepoint_command':
|> > > tracepoint.c:2077: warning: suggest explicit braces to avoid ambiguous `else'
|> >
|> > This warning appears with a GCC 2.8.1-based compiler, but does not
|> > with GCC 3.0.4. Hence my question, do we want to fix these warnings
|> > anyway?

GCC 2.8 warns in one case where GCC 2.95+ does not:

if (foo)
if (bar)
;
else
;
else
;

|> FWIW, I'm still using GCC 2.7.2.1 on one of my machines.

GCC 2.7 does not have this warning in the first place.

Andreas.

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