On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Gottlob Frege <gottlobfrege@gmail.com> wrote:
But I will say we still did it - ie we still found it valuable to get to zero warnings.
I read your post carefully and it seems like fixing the warnings didn't uncover any bugs and at least for one warning the fix introduced bugs; +0 for the former, -1 for the latter leaves me wondering what value do you find in fixing the warnings.
Hard to find, but it was there:
Once you get to 0, warnings will find more bugs than they cause, but not during the drive to 0
I think everyone agrees 0 warnings are worthwhile (mostly to increase visibility of new warnings, some of which will flag real bugs). It is just a question of how worthwhile, and what, if anything, should be done when you are in the way too many warnings situation. Tony