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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Tobias Hahn <tobias.hahn@ableton.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: -Wformat and the like
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>>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias Hahn <tobias.hahn@ableton.com> writes:

Tobias> By the way: Why do the makefiles include -Wformat, -Wformat-nonliteral
Tobias> and -Werror? I agree that this would be a best pratice if the code
Tobias> were clean, but with literally thousands of these kinds of errors it
Tobias> just gives me as a user a hard time trying to get a build.

I don't know the answer, but I definitely don't see thousands of such
warnings on my Fedora 11 box.

Tom