style-warnings



James Amundson writes:

 > I would be very happy to have someone actively working on reducing the
 > number of warning messages compiling maxima produces. If you want to
 > work seriously on this topic, I can arrange to give you cvs write
 > access.

Fine. I will do the best that I can. I find these warnings quite
annoying, since they either distract from the real bugs or might cover
up some bigger problem.

 > You should start by making some fixes and sending them to the
 > list in patch form, however.

Yes, of course. I understand that :-)

 > Unfortunately, the upcoming 5.9.1 release makes this a bad time to start
 > on any non-trivial changes.

So I will start with the trivial things.

 > As Ray has found, some of the problems we
 > are being warned about require real thought.

That's what I suspect.

Andreas
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