-On [20050227 08:42], Bill Hacker (wbh@conducive.org) wrote:
>Kevin M. Kilbride wrote:
>>Actually, in playing with this further, I can see that it is the base
>>GCC compiler that emits this warning, not the -Wcast-qual option. This
>>is much worse. The warning cannot be suppressed, even though it is
>>warning about obviously permitted behavior.
>
>I apreciate your thorough research, but do not see this as a 'show stopper'.
>
>Imperfect, yes. Inconsistent, yes.
>
>In need of correction - 'probably', but not necessarily 'absolutely'.
Compilers should not be inconsistent, not be imperfect. It is the building
stone of software and if the compiler fails to stack up by having X bugs a
month/year I seriously doubt the usefulness of said compiler outside of the
toy realm.
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