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On 02/15/2007 08:02 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Think of it this way: in science, a theory is proven to be bad by a
> single undeniable fact just showing that it's wrong.
> 
> The same is largely true of a warning. If the warning sometimes
> happens for code that is perfectly fine, the warning is bad.

Slight difference; if a compulsory warning sometimes happens for code 
that is perfectly fine, the warning is bad. I do want to be _able_ to 
get as many warnings as a compiler can muster though.

Given char's special nature, shouldn't the conclusion of this thread 
have long been simply that gcc needs -Wno-char-pointer-sign? (with 
whatever default, as far as I'm concerned).

Rene.