Build portability: enable or disable warnings

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/20/2011 02:57 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 
> I did find it worrying that there was an active desire to use new
> OpenJDK7 language features throughout the codebase (despite the
> bootstrapping problems this can cause), yet these 1.5 issues remain.

I'd be a bit more worried for the health of OpenJDK7 if there were
a blanket conversion to new language features going on.  There always
is a non-zero risk when making this kind of change, and I have seen
many bugs caused by ill-advised attempts to silence warnings.

Andrew.