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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
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Subject: Re: Should we fix warnings from GCC 2.xx?
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 04:31:00 -0000
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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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