From: jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) Subject: Re: Problems compiling Elm and mail Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 22:06:14 +0000
> 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
It really wasn't directed at you - more at the original authors for
such sloppy coding practices. I'd had a long day dealing with just these
problems in another large chunk of code. Adding prototypes, removing
redundant declarations of functions in standard header files, adding casts
where they were needed (after hunting through the code to see if the
cast was even valid), etc. It tends to put me in a rather intolerant mood.