Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:37:34 +0100 (GMT/BST) | From | Mike Jagdis <> | Subject | Re: Style question: comparison between signed and unsigned? |
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> The fact of the matter is, by having the compiler issue these warnings, > it makes folks much more likely to ignore *all* compiler warnings, since > so many of them will be false positives.
In my experience it means that programmers start to figure C is so dumb they have to explicitly cast *everything* - which not only makes it impossible to read their code but ensures neither the compiler nor the human has the faintest idea whether the programmer *really* intended a type conversion or if there is a bug lurking. Not good.
Mike
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