Patch compiler warnings away?

Bob Eager rde at tavi.co.uk
Thu Oct 1 21:21:28 UTC 2020


On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 23:11:49 +0200
Moritz Schmitt <moritz at schmi.tt> wrote:

> What's the recommended approach? Just ignore the warnings and don't
> modify the software since it builds anyway? Or create patches even
> though they don't seem to be strictly necessary?

I tend to patch them away, as if they don't fix them upstream they
might obscure more important warnings when building the next version.
And it's neater!

I should say that I usually have to deal with more than three warnings;
you case is more marginal.


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