Re: [PATCH] init-db: remove unused #includes

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:36:00PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > FWIW, the full set of CFLAGS I use (which I specify in config.mak) is:
>> >
>> >     CFLAGS += -Wall -Werror
>> >     CFLAGS += -Wno-format-zero-length
>> >     CFLAGS += -Wdeclaration-after-statement
>> >     CFLAGS += -Wpointer-arith
>> >     CFLAGS += -Wstrict-prototypes
>> >     CFLAGS += -Wold-style-declaration
>> 
>> I think I have no-pointer-to-int-cast, old-style-definition and vla
>> in addition to the above.
>
> Thanks, I added the latter two to my setup. But what is the purpose of
> turning off pointer-to-int warnings? It seems like those are a good
> indication of a sloppy construct (and AFAICT, we do not have any code
> which triggers on it).

It probably a remnant from olden days; perhaps we used to have a
code that stuffs a pointer value to an int field used as a hash key
or something.  As you said, there is no need for disabling that
check in today's code.

Thanks for catching.
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