Re: Announce: gcc bogus warning repository

Jörn Engel
2006-10-04T16:22:31Z

On Sun, 1 October 2006 13:20:45 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> If you have to grep useful stuff out of the noise, you've already lost.

My initial thought was to agree. And I still almost agree with this
statement.

Almost, because every so often, it makes sense to see a shipload of
warnings and manually weed through them all. 99% will be false
positives, but there is the remaining 1% indicating real bugs.

Of course, once these have been dealt with, the warnings give 100%
noise and 0% useful output. It is time to wait another year or four
before enough bugs have accumulated to make it worth the effort again.

That said, if you need to grep every day, you've definitely lost.

Jörn

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