Subj : Re: gcc and my mind To : comp.programming.threads From : Phil Frisbie, Jr. Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 08:17 pm David Schwartz wrote: > 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. I second that! I have found many errors in the past when compiling with GCC that MSVC did not find even at error level 4 and with MS language extensions disabled. -- Phil Frisbie, Jr. Hawk Software http://www.hawksoft.com .