langtools: no more warnings

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Both cleanup patches and real bug fixes are good.  Reducing the  
unnecessary warnings makes it easier to see the significant ones.

Experience says we're unlikely to be overwhelmed by the cleanup  
patches ;-)

-- Jon

On Jan 30, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:

> 2009/1/30 Jonathan Gibbons <Jonathan.Gibbons at sun.com>:
>> For those that didn't notice the fine print, a recent push to the  
>> langtools
>> repository [1]  finally raised the quality bar on the langtools  
>> repository.
>> That push fixed (or suppressed) the remaining outstanding warnings  
>> in the
>> repository, and enabled -Xlint:all -Werror.
>>
>> Now, if only the other repositories could do the same...
>>
>> -- Jon
>>
>> [1]
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2009-January/000873.html
>>
>
> We already had such a bug request for some of the JDK C code:
>
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289
>
> I just hope we're not going to be mired in cleanup patches as opposed
> to real bug fixes.
> -- 
> Andrew :-)
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