inline or attachments?

[mayer at gis.net]

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> > Danny Mayer wrote:
> > > At 06:58 PM 3/11/2005, Rick Jones wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Is bind-workers an "inline" list or an attachments list?  I have
> > a  >> bunch of
> > >> compiler warnings from a 64-bit compile on HP-UX 11.11 with the
> > latest  >> compilers
> > >> (32-bit compilation failed without the latest patches - that mail
> > was  >> sent to
> > >> bind9-workers not sure if that actually goes anywhere these
> > days?) and am >> wondering what the best way to pass them on would
> > be. >>
> > >> rick jones
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Rick, you should know that all bug reports like these should go to
> > > bind9-bugs at isc.org. You can post them to bind-workers but it's not
> > > a bug reporting list.
> > 
> > It wasn't clear to me that +w1 (HP-UX ANSI C equivalent to gcc
> > -Wall) warning s 
> > were necessarily bugs, but if that is the concensus I can send them
> that way.
> 
>     We try hard to remove the warnings as often are real bugs or
>     the noise hides real bugs.  Most platforms are (almost) warning
>     free these days.
> 
>     The hardest ones to remove are those that are the result of
>     errors in system header files.
> 
>     Mark
> 

I agree with that. I spent a lot of time going over even warnings
to decide whether or not there could be potential errors in the code.
Then you have to make a decision on how to eliminate the warning
message.
It's a slow and tedious business but it's necessary if you want reliable
code and it makes other errors very visible.

I'm doing the same thing with NTP.

Danny
 
> > rick jones
> > 
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