[Python-Dev] Compiler warnings (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Wed Feb 1 22:15:11 CET 2006

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:29:16AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

[Thomas Wouters] > Well, I said 4.0.3, and that was wrong. It's actually a pre-release of 4.0.3 > (in Debian's 'unstable' distribution.) However, 4.0.2 (the actual release) > behaves the same way. The normal make process shows quite a lot of output on > systems that use gcc, so I wouldn't be surprised if people did ignore it, > for the most part.

Does it really? It's completely warning-free on Windows, and that's the intent, and it takes ongoing work to keep it that way. Over at, e.g.,

No, it's mostly warning-free, it just outputs a lot of text. By default, the warnings don't stand out much. And if you have a decent computer, it scrolls by pretty fast, too. ;)

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