Re: [gnome-love] Hi, which way ?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:56:58AM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:33, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:45:52AM +0200 or thereabouts, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
> > > Hi Artiom,
> > > If you are interested in doing some testing, you are more than welcome
> > > to do so. Testing with tools like Valgrind will probably find some more
> > > problems in the various parts of Gnome.
> >
> > I have had several emails from Julian Seward which I constantly
> > fail to forward onto more knowledge people (sorry, Julian!) in
> > which he has said that he would love to hear about places where
> > Valgrind can be made better for GNOME. Any places where it
> > doesn't work nicely are not deliberate but just a consequence
> > of his being less familiar with GNOME. 

  Valgrind is a really cool tool. It also allows profiling.
The KDE guys made what looks nice front-end to valgrind reporting
capabilities.

> > Summarising what I remember of what he said, he was talking
> > about how he hoped it would be a good tool not only for "something
> > is broken, reach for debugging tool" (ie for valgrind) but also
> > for running routinely to find things that were broken anywhere
> > and working out what common errors were being made that could
> > be fixed all over the place.
> >
> > I think :) 
>
> Compiling software with -Wall can also be an easy way to fix bugs.
> Missing prototypes, wrong type of arguments, missing return values, etc.

  I use 

   -pedantic -W -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts 
-Wuninitialized -Wparentheses -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wredundant-decls

  in addition to -Wall and it has avoided quite a few bugs, or debugging
sessions, really...

Daniel

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