Re: inetutils

[Mats Erik Andersson]

Hello there,

>    Also, the code seems to very buggy - my findings were triggered just by
>    warnings from 'gcc -Wall -Wextra'. I didn't even take a closer look into
>    the sources. Not even talking about test code coverage and fuzzing.
>
> Some of the code was ported from BSD 4.4-lite or something, and then
> has been tweaked and tuned.  Some tools are written from scratch, and
> they tend to be less buggy.  

Observe that already Gnulib is responsible for too many warnings.
Running clang-3.4 on FreeBSD with '-Wall -Werror' aborts in 'lib/',
as does gcc-4.3.3 on OpenIndiana with '-Wall -Wextra -Werror',
whereas dropping '-Wextra' lets gcc-4.3.3 enter into proper Inetutils'
source before aborting.

I remember complaining about this with bug-gnulib, at the time I was
beginning to engage for Inetutils, but got answers that it be of no
priority whatsoever. Therefor I stopped bothering about it.

Best regards for now,
  M E Andersson