[Vm-dev] gcc -Wall -pedantic (was: sweep failed to find exact end of memory)

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Mar 16 17:23:00 UTC 2007


Diego Gomez Deck wrote:
> Is not posible to find all the buggy casts (between unsigned and signed
> ints) using this compiler flags?

I'm actually not sure.

> Anyone did try it?

Once in a blue moon, yes. However, the number of warnings was so 
overwhelming that it felt to laborious a task (in particular considering 
that often you need to find your way backwards from the C code to the 
slang code and that inlining makes the problem worse).

Cheers,
   - Andreas


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