Re: [HACKERS] --enable-debug

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> Currently, I believe -Wall is turned on automatically if your compiler
> >> is gcc --- at least it seems to work that way on my platform (maybe
> >> it's in the hpux_gcc template?). Anyway I get a pretty good set of -W
> >> options without doing anything special.
>
> > I remember when we removed every warning gcc -Wall complained about.
>
> Um, did we stop?
>
> In my experience, gcc is an excellent detector of portability problems.
> I believe that it is good practice to crank gcc's warning level out
> to the max, and to fix everything that it complains about.
>

No, we fixed all the code gcc warned about. Our code is 100% clean.
The only problems are fork() handling, and patches people have submitted
that were not 100% clean and will be fixed before final.

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