“It seems wrong that the compiler should complain when a callee enforces a
more rigorous contract than a caller demands”
I don’t even know how to comment on that statement.
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Jamey Kirby wrote:
> for(;
is the proper way. while(TRUE) or while(1) is convoluted. What is
> TRUE? What is 1? I consider it sloppy programming. I would rather see a
> goto than while (TRUE).
>
> I think most projects I have worked on, developers use /w3. It drives me
> crazy. I have seen countless project where code ships with hundreds of
> warnings.
>
> BTW: I prefer the word recalcitrant to cantankerous 
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> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Marion Bond
> wrote:
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>> IMHO it is much easier to simply define the non-obvious MACRO
>> while(true) to eliminate the warnings; but then I am irrationally
>> prejudiced against for loops (except the .NET for each next kind)
>>
>> The more annoying problem is casting function pointers because the
>> signatures differ by const qualifiers. Generic function pointer types
>> don’t include them, but often the actual function definition does and that
>> causes a type mismatch. It seems wrong that the compiler should complain
>> when a callee enforces a more rigorous contract than a caller demands
>>
>> Sent from Surface Pro
>>
>> From: Maxim S. Shatskih
>> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 6:25 PM
>> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
>>
>> > I was pleased to see that the WDK defaults /W4. Many devs simply find
>> /W4 too cantankerous to
>> >deal with.
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>> I think /W4 /WX is a must beyound doubt, even if some stuff from it
>> should be suppressed by #pragmas.
>>
>> The Greek-like word of “cantankerous”, looking like a Bysantine emperor
>> family name, surely enriches my English knowledge
>>
>> >Unreferenced parameters,
>>
>> So what? C has no C++ elegant way of dealing with them, but it has
>> UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER() macro.
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>> >and invariant expressions in a “while” statement
>>
>> Use for(; instead.
>>
>> –
>> Maxim S. Shatskih
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