[MPlayer-users] why so many "warning" messages during make of cvs mplayer?

[Serge Matovic]

Thank you very much for your reply/explanation.
Regards,
serge.


--- The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:

> Serge Matovic wrote:
> 
> > I know that this is one of those very stupid
> questions, and a waste
> > of your time but why so many "warning" messages
> during "make" of cvs
> > mplayer? I'm just curious.
> 
> Partly because the code was written with an eye to
> working, not to being
> warning-free. Partly because different warnings are
> given by different
> versions of different compilers, and not all of the
> warnings have been
> compensated for since their respective compiler
> versions were released.
> (GCC 4.x now gives floods of 'pointer targets differ
> in signedness'
> errors, which GCC 3.x did not; some at least of the
> devs appear to think
> that this is not a valid thing to warn about, and so
> whether or not
> those warnings will ever be fixed is up in the air.)
> 
> -- 
>        The Wanderer
> 
> Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not
> mean I agree with any
> side of it.
> 
> Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
> 
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