Re: [rmtools][php-5.4] Build error between r and 311062

On 16 May 2011 00:44, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 15 May 2011 21:37,  <noreply@php.net> wrote: >>> >>> This is an automatic mail from the rmtoool's build bots. >>> >>> New build errors have been introduced between >>> and 311062. >>> >>> The errors are: >>> >>> php-5.4, build ts-windows-vc9-x86: >>> , NMAKE, error, U1077, '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio >>> 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe"' : return code '0x2', >>> >>> >>> >>> Full logs are available at (htmlized versions too): >>> >>> http://windows.php.net/downloads/snaps/php-5.4/r311062 >> >> With 3,475 warnings in the Win32 x86 VC9 nts build, how do you see the >> wood for the trees? > >> If the warnings can be ignored, why not suppress them? > > Ideally almost all could be suppressed. However there are many false > positive or cases that can't happen (theoretically). Keeping in mind > that this log is the static analyzer logs. Once I got the new machines > running, both normal and analyzers log will be published. > > The key then is to detect the delta between two revisions (should be > up soon) and then fix those already. > > That being said, a warning php has been a sweet from many of us but > some devs simply do not want that ;-). > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org > "some devs simply do not want that" Why not? I'm guessing the amount of effort required to resolve false positives outweighs the benefit. When I was taught programming, compiler warnings were explained as the compiler telling me that I had not made my intent 100% crystal clear and that the compiler was making a good guess but possibly an incorrect or inappropriate one. Not a bug per se, but just an error in judgement. And when you are compiling across so many different systems, would it not be beneficial to at least re-examine some of these warnings. Just in case ...? Or am I just wasting my time and you all know exactly which warnings are just junk? Are you all that good? Richard. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY