From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) Subject: Re: Problems compiling Elm and mail Date: 10 Aug 1992 01:08:36 GMT
In article <713400278snx@grendel.demon.co.uk> jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
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>In article <1992Aug8.195137.25157@utstat.uucp> rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) writes:
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>[text about compilation problems]
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>> As far as the warnings go - if it doesn't stop
>> compilling - why bother? ;)
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>I notice the smiley but...
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>Because they lead to a maintainence nightmare later on. Warnings about
>incompatible porinter types, conversion of ints to pointers without
>casts, etc. are reports of badly written and quite possibly wrong code.
>[stuff about possible problems]
Thanx for the lesson. I'm indeed new to C and appreciate
it. But we're talking about different things. I said
"don't bother about warnings" talking to someone trying
to get 2Mb plus of mail & uucp code to work. It's a big
code for me and much more professional than I could write
now (or ever perhaps). I was trying to help the guy who
seemed to have same problems as I once had. And he
thanked me a lot. Via email ...
Rafal
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