http://www.osnews.com/story/14147/Building_the_Whole_Debian_Archive_with_GCC_4_1 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 01:31:38 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?108923 http://www.osnews.com/thread?108923 pretty sure that should say "Building the Whole Debian...." Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sequethin) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?108926 http://www.osnews.com/thread?108926 nope, it should actually read "the Ghoul Debian" ;-)Edited 2006-03-28 21:47 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (korpenkraxar) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?108934 http://www.osnews.com/thread?108934 I like this, it shows how powerful OSS is.
Sometimes you think that, "heey what's up with the devs - are they just creating bells and whistles?"; wooah this is nice indeed.Edited 2006-03-28 22:10 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dikatlon) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?109046 http://www.osnews.com/thread?109046 I´m recompiling everything with my own optimalisation flags on Ubuntu too,for fun.At least i get some 64-bit packages of otherwise 32-bit packages. Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?109091 http://www.osnews.com/thread?109091 The more warnings and errors that the compiler can generate, the better. My old CS prof once said, "If you are lucky, it won't compile." Developers should always use -Wall, and pay attention to the results. When you work off the warnings, you will feel a lot better. And you will be surprised how many potential bugs you will find. Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ishmal) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?109121 http://www.osnews.com/thread?109121 --Developers should always use -Wall, and pay attention to the results.

Quite so, I use the Wall flag together with the pedantic flags. Clean code is both portable and reusable. It also advances my understanding of the language (together with peer estimations of my skills).

The point about new checks generating warnings rather than errors has some validity though perhaps not every time. Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ameasures) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?109197 http://www.osnews.com/thread?109197 I thought Broadcom was mostly known for wifi that didn't work in OSS. Neat! Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nathan O.) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?109403 http://www.osnews.com/thread?109403 Mr. Martin had done really a good job. 500 bugs - wow. Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (microFawad) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?109632 http://www.osnews.com/thread?109632 also useful is to add the -Weffc++, which throws out warnings about code which doesn't meet the suggestions made in the "More Effective C++" series. Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bnolsen) Comments