Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> It only generates warnings on broken compilers.

  Are you doing thus simply to taunt me?

  It seems impossible for you to understand that 'abcd' produces a different
value depending on the platform you are compiling to.
  If you, for example, read four bytes from a file to an integer and then
compare it with 'abcd', the result will depend on the platform the program
is compiled for.
  Thus, since you are probably writing code with is not portable across
platforms, it's your code which is broken and the warning is relevant.

  Putting the camera inside a non-hollow object in povray is perfectly
legal, yet povray warns about it. Does this mean that povray is broken?
No, it means that povray warns you that you might be doing something which
has unexpected results.
  This is exactly the same case as with the 'abcd' warning. It might be legal,
but it has a certain probability of not working as you expect in a different
platform than yours.

  POV-Ray does it. Why can't gcc do it?

  I kindly asked you before to stop that insulting behaviour, but you won't
do it. That starts to be rather irritating.

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