From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: [TUHS] C question for the historians
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:41:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dcc53445-a7b1-2a12-cc17-739dacb3b06f@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYKVyTAmOTT944md+0Lmg-yN=2=qwrDm+n3p_6+QvQ2JFg@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/8/17 3:13 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> There's a lot of weird lore around use of C nowadays, a lot of it in my
> experience from folks who come from Java. But this w & MASK discussion is
> one of the weirder ones.
gcc warns about it in its default mode, which is why so many people who
are adamant about warning-free compilation have weird workarounds. It's
just a PITA.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 16:17 Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 16:27 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-09 10:17 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-08 18:14 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-08 18:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 19:05 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-08 20:13 ` ron minnich
2017-11-08 20:23 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-08 20:32 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 20:39 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-08 20:41 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2017-11-09 1:22 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-09 1:41 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-09 1:49 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 20:43 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-08 20:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-08 20:36 ` Warner Losh
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