In article <3D99CB0F.5DE476A8@gmx.de> , Christoph Hormann 
<chr### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> What i have been missing in your posts of this thread is a statement of
> understanding to those who compile POV-Ray with gcc every day and
> therefore have problems with all those warnings without any conncetion to
> the reason of the warning in the first place.  To me it seems that both
> ABX and Vadim respect your opinion on the matter of the warnings and their
> reasons but your arguments would probably be much better received if you
> better show your understanding of someone's motives for working and making
> thoughts on that matter.

Well, reading the documentation of gcc suggests to use "-Wno-multichar" as a
command line option to turn those warnings off.  In fact it can be found in
all versions of the gcc online documentation at

<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/gcc_2.html#SEC8>
<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.0.4/gcc_3.html#SEC11>
<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.1.1/gcc/Warning-Options.html#Warning%20
Options>
<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2/gcc/Warning-Options.html#Warning%20Op
tions>

Really trivial, if you ask me.  I could find it within seconds at the place
I would expect it (warning command line options) yet I really do not use gcc
frequently at all.

It is also trivial to find in google, which returns currect help for this
problem at least behind every link of the first three result pages!

<http://www.google.com/search?q=multicharacter+constant+gcc+warning>

So it is really not difficult to turn it off and no longer have any
problems.  And indeed, if it is that easy to turn off, I do not understand
their problem with it.


    Thorsten


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