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From: EE599038@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu (Paul Charette)
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Subject: MAKEing KA9Q from the sources - Compiler warnings?
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Date: 27 Feb 90 03:06:00 GMT
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	I am trying to MAKE KA9Q from it's sources (from the NOS archive
FTP'd from flash.bellcore - src.arc, that is).  It _does_ create a perfectly
workable version of net.exe, but I get two flavors of compiler warnings all
through the MAKE process.  Examples of these are:

   Warning main.c 166: Parameter 'v2' is never used in function keyboard

AND

   Warning main.c 577: Undefined structure 'ax25_cb'

	Concerning the first, it seems like Phil passes some parameters to
some routines and then never uses them.  While this isn't harmful, it goes
unexplained.  I am just curious as to why this is.  I can always suppress the
messages by adding "-w-par" to the CFLAGS definition in the makefile.

	As for the second, I find it a little more disconcerting.  It seems
to be a result of include files which use structure definitions from other
include files.  If the "structure defining" include file doesn't get included
before the "structure declaring" include file, we get the error.  Again, it 
appears to be non-fatal.  My concern with this one is that if I mask it 
off by appending "-w-stu" to CFLAGS, then any code I add/modify may have
undefined structures of my own devising and the compiler won't tell me.

	I realize that these may just be things I have to live with, and that's
okay.  I guess I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing something ;-)
I suppose once net.exe is MAKEd I can remove the "-w-stu" and "-w-par" from
CFLAGS and any warnings that MAKE generates then will be limited to modules
that I have been working on.

	Any explainations, flames, and supportive messages appreciated.

Thanks!

Paul Charette
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

"The truth doesn't gouge your eyes, but it does redden them."
						- Maninka proverb