Re: Latest GCC-3.3 is much quieter about sign/unsigned comparisons

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Mon, 5 May 2003 14:06:41 +0100


On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 09:48:04AM +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > ... has eliminated all the warnings that GCC-3.3 by default printed
> > with regards to signed/unsigned comparisons. A build of today's BK
> > with this compiler is much quieter than those previously done
> > with the 3.3 snapshots.
>
> Is this a good thing, though? I'm quite sure those warnings were useful.

In a lot of cases, they were just noise. They are still there with
-W if you really want to see them.

Dave

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