Subj : Re: gcc and my mind
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 11:31 am


<verna.lamay@bankarea.com> wrote in message 
news:3d54$431864af$d99c5301$14791@allthenewsgroups.com...

>  I'm writing an aplication in C++. This aplication must be ported on a 
> multitude of
> platforme, so the code must be porbale. When i'm compiling my application 
> with Visual >C++ compiler i get, 3,2 , 1 or no warning. When i compile it 
> with gcc it give me 2 screens >of warning. I apreciate that gcc it's an 
> open source compiler and it's free, but it have a >maturity taht should 
> stop or reduce  this kind of thinks. What do you think?

    Without seeing what the warnings are, it's impossible to comment. I have 
some code that compiles just fine, no errors or warnings on VC++. When I 
went to compile it with GCC yesterday, I got four warnings. Guess what? 
Three of them were potential bugs that VC++ failed to warn me about.

    DS

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