How DMD's -w *Prevents* Me From Seeing My Warnings

[daoryn]

Rainer Deyke Wrote:

> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > (you can say "C should never release 
> > without fixing all warnings first" all you want, but the fact is: it still 
> > happens).
> 
> How would the author of C check against all possible warnings in all
> possible versions of all possible D compilers, including future versions
> of these compilers?  Saying "C should never release without fixing all
> warnings first" is equivalent to saying "C should never release".
> 

You missed the point: theres an annoying bug in DMD and a fix has been available for it for 1 year and its still accumulating dust on bugzilla.
The Original Author is not complaining about C's author, he's complaining about a bug in the compiler.