Re: [pdf-devel] [patch] convert LZW filter to new API

[Brad Hards]

On Thursday 25 June 2009 04:32:17 am address@hidden wrote:
>    -AM_CFLAGS = -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing $(LIBGCRYPT_CFLAGS)
>    +AM_CFLAGS = -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -Wconversion $(LIBGCRYPT_CFLAGS)
>
> The -Wconversion option makes gcc to generate a lot of warnings in
> both header files included from gnulib and our source code.  Is there
> a particular reason to add that switch?
That probably shouldn't have been merged. It often shows some useful bugs, but 
also shows some unwarranted warnings.

In the longer term, we should be using some more targeted warning flags, and 
trying to fix the warnings.

Brad