Re: Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

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From: Eric Sosman
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:48

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Fred Ma wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the tip about -Wall.  I never realized I had so much
> problem with my code until I turned it on.  I thought I was being
> high and mighty righteous-like with -pedantic, but it looks like
> there is a higher righteousness.  Lots of good reading, too, of
> the man page.

    Try using both -W and -Wall; the latter's name suggests
that it's enabling "all" warnings, but that's not so.

    Also, -O2 (or higher) in conjunction with these can
produce warnings that will help locate uses of uninitialized
variables.

    For code that can tolerate it (some perfectly good code
cannot), consider adding -ansi.

-- 
Eric.Sosman@sun.com

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From: Eric Sosman <Eric.Sosman@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:48:01 -0500
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