[PURRS-devel] Re: One last time: annoying warning

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it> writes:

[...]

| What is important is that the GCC people taking care of the standard
| library do the right thing.  Since they know that someone may very
| legitimately wish to compile with, e.g., -W -Wall, they write code
| like
| 
|        virtual iter_type
|        do_get_time(iter_type __s, iter_type /*__end*/, ios_base&,
|                    ios_base::iostate& /*__err*/, tm* /*__t*/) const
|        { return __s; }

I'm one of those GCC people taking care of the library and I can
assure you I don't particularly appreciate that style (like some other
things in the V3 STYLE).  So, I would say that you should be very
careful in drawing conclusions from things you might read in the V3
source code -- not every one has the same idea of the styles to be used.

[...]

| (stl_alloc.h, lines 120 ff.), ..., you will find hundreds of examples
| like that.  Naturally, I am really thankful they do that.

Naturally you'll also see the opposite: