Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:24:10 -0600

> I have reveived a bundle of patches to EPICS Base 3.14 that supposedly
> fixes (most of) the GCC 4 warnings.

I don't think that we have gcc 4.0 installed here yet. Is it being provided
with the latest Linux? I just checked and it isn't provided yet by the
cygwin installer.

> I have reveived a bundle of patches to EPICS Base 3.14 that supposedly
> fixes (most of) the GCC 4 warnings.
> 
> Do you want me to ...
> - commit them after quick review?
> - commit them straight away?
> - keep them for my own viewing pleasure?
> 
> Should I
> - create a special branch?
> - tag this commit somehow specially?
> - commit them to the 3.14 branch only?
> - commit them to both 3.14 branch and 3.15 trunk?
> 
> I'd like to hear your comments before completely messing things up
> (which I'm going to do anyway, be assured).

I am happy for you to commit a fix Ralph. It seems that it would be a waste
to commit your fix to R3.14 w/o doing a merge of the R3.14 updates onto the
main trunk also.

Two concerns:
1) We need to be very careful not to add any new bugs to R3.14
2) There is always the peril that, when suppressing compiler warnings, we
end up sweeping the dust bunnies under the carpet rather than eradicating
them, and it might be better to have them in site (flagged by compiler
warnings) as opposed to having them lurk in dark places (suppressed by casts
etc).

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Lange [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:24 AM
> To: EPICS Core Talk
> Subject: GCC 4 warnings in EPICS Base
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have reveived a bundle of patches to EPICS Base 3.14 that supposedly
> fixes (most of) the GCC 4 warnings.
> 
> Do you want me to ...
> - commit them after quick review?
> - commit them straight away?
> - keep them for my own viewing pleasure?
> 
> Should I
> - create a special branch?
> - tag this commit somehow specially?
> - commit them to the 3.14 branch only?
> - commit them to both 3.14 branch and 3.15 trunk?
> 
> I'd like to hear your comments before completely messing things up
> (which I'm going to do anyway, be assured).
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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