Re: failure to build due to ignoring fwrite() result

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 08/31/2010 03:24 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> > + @pindex gcc
> >    @pindex lint
> > ! @pindex valgrind
> > ! Don't make the program ugly to placate @code{gcc -Wall},

-Wextra should fix Bruno's valid complaint.

> > @code{lint},
> > ! @code{valgrind}, or other software analysis tools.  These tools can
> > ! help find bugs, but they can also generate false alarms for constructs
> > ! that they incorrectly consider to be suspicious.  Although we want
> > ! useful warnings and don't want useless ones, we also want code that is
> > ! as readable as possible and is not cluttered with unnecessary casts or
> > ! wrappers.  For example, in C, please don't insert casts to @code{void}
> > ! or replace @code{0} with @code{NULL} merely to pacify a lint checker.
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I agree this should be removed, and possibly replaced with a better example.

Paolo