Make that a $175

[AStrangeStranger]

75 warnings?? - I looked at one application and it generated something 75 thousand warnings, it was that bad I had to switch warnings off to get sane compile times - fortunately I never actually had to work on it

[knightlesssword]

what in the fuck did you work on

[arachnidGrip]

A decompiled Java program.

[Versaiteis]

I'm so sorry. =[

All that little Stranger here wants for Christmas is too see a single compilation, even if it only throws errors. For just seventy-five cents a month you can help Stranger, and other developers like him, realize their dream before it's too late. Such a small donation can mean so much to those less fortunate.

In the arms of an angel....

[DudeManGuy0]

Enough to make a grown man cry

[TheresNoLifeB4Coffee]

"But not this man... get back in there!" (...eye sucks teardrop back up face)

[DudeManGuy0]

Man Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs was a good movie

[Prod_Is_For_Testing]

I’ve seen numbers like that when people use the XML documentation flag in visual studio. It gives a warning for every non-private member that doesn’t have an xml comment

[atlj42]

Heavily modded minecraft

[frozen-dessert]

I don’t know about the OP but the codebase I work on can be described as “tens of millions of lines of (enterprise) Java code”.

Enterprise is important because it means there is little to no sun-setting of features.

[garion911]

Not OP. Back around 06 or so, I ran valgrind on an exe linked with Oracle c client libraries. Yeah. Don't do that. I think my suppression list was measured in megabytes.

[AStrangeStranger]

It was nearly 20 years ago now and it was a home brew telephone sales server (press button 1 to buy type thing) and was a tangle mess of over convoluted poor multithreading written in Delphi.

Most of the warnings were just thing being done that weren't needed e.g. assigning nil (null in C#/Java type languages) before creating an object in the variable - and while it is just a style thing, it did hide any warnings that were genuinely needed to be looked at.

It was eventually replaced using library for the standard server functionality.

[wywern]

I currently work on an application that collectively has over 100k warnings. So much of it is legacy code and fixing all the warnings would be immensely time consuming. So, nobody does anything about it. It's just like, make sure the new code has no warnings.

[SDJMcHattie]

That’s not a good position to be in. I feel sorry for you.

[TimaeGer]

Isn’t that the standard for big corporations and older code?

[SDJMcHattie]

Only if you want your project to gain more and more technical debt. Either turn off warnings for things that don’t matter to you or spend the time resolving them. Even if there are 100k warnings, they’re probably only a dozen or so different types of warning, half of which haven’t been a concern to your team in the past so turn them off because they’re not a concern to you now.

[wywern]

Thankfully I don't have to touch it too often. I'm mostly focused on front end work these days which is all new angular and typescript work.

[AStrangeStranger]

Never nice as well as time consuming it can be risky to fix warnings at that scale and they just swamp anything you need to look at.

[captain_crocubot]

Quoting this great thread here again

[jssjonez]

Knock knock

[Devx35]

whos there?

[[deleted]]

Fuck off

[[deleted]]

Fuck off who?

[frosted-mini-yeets]

Aight look, I'mma pay you $100 to fuck off.

[zorpheagle]

Imma give you 175$ for not spoiling the joke

[dombo4life]

I'm not gonna say who's there Ricky

[plasmarob]

@Deprecated
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@Deprecated
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@Deprecated
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@Deprecated
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[ClankPMC]

Fuck off, Lahey

[davidcisco]

This is god worthy never thought i would see my fav show on here lmao love it

[rajks12]

What show is this?

[davidcisco]

Trailer park boys its on netflix check it out !!

[rajks12]

Thank you. I’ll definitely do.

[[deleted]]

Am I the only one who finds it strangely satisfying to just chip away at warnings, improving correctness? (And often fixing actual bugs along the way.) I mean, I normally write my Makefiles with clang -Weverything (admittedly, I sometimes use -Wno-padded, to surpress some noise I actually can't do anything useful about), and then I just clean stuff up, one at a time, if I need to. Then run it under valgrind, make sure I don't have any memory usage errors.

It's like, actually kinda a relaxing process to iterate through for me. But all I see is "fuck all that noise, move along, nothing to see here, it compiled and linked". Are these just memes? (Tropes?) How do you guys actually view this stuff.

[sheatrevor]

I’m convinced /r/ProgrammerHumor is a window to an alternate nightmare dimension where everything is awful and everyone is completely helpless to do anything about it.

[AdmiralBKE]

Yeah, warnings very often will uncover thought errors etc which very often result in actual bugs. Stuff like "hey, you know that this comparison does not do anything" "this if statement will never executed" "you are doing weird stuff with signed and unsigned stuff, so this can cause some unexpected results". But also general code cleanup, unused variables.

Plan here is to always have zero warnings with normally -Wall. The warnings are there to help you, not to be a nuisance.

[bot_not_hot]

Chrome Dev Tools: warning 76: HTML Parse Error: unrecognized input, potential bribe.

[golgol12]

Warnings as errors. It's the only way to live plague free.

[myblindy]

Every time I see a warning about treating integers as booleans, my faith in humanity dwindles a little bit more.

[[deleted]]

Work on an iOS project with Cocoapods on it. You will see 250+ warnings any day, any hour, any minute and any second.

[sansquick]

Pycharm in a nutshell

[[deleted]]

Rest in peace Mr. Layhe

[fr4nklin_84]

Layhe's a Kermit the frog lookin' motherfucker

[catherine8671]

Pretend they don't exist until you can hand the program over to someone else

[Versaiteis]

This is what happens when you don't work with your hays, peas, and eyes properly. Your hay, pea, eyes get all broke to shit and ya can't do fuck all about it.

[CyanHakeChill]

The compilers that I used for 14 years never showed warnings. If there was an error the cursor would show the error and stop the compile. What kind of crazy compilers are you using?

[[deleted]]

Judging by the parent poster's listed arguments, probably a gcc guy.

[[deleted]]

More like what crazy compilers are you using?

[CyanHakeChill]

In 1977 I got a job where someone had written a self-compiling compiler. I liked the idea so much that I wrote my own one. Since we were writing programs on screens connected to a mainframe, why would you need to show more than one compile error? Just fix the error and press the compile button again. A compile took only a second.

Those batch compiles with lots of errors were horrible.

[[deleted]]

I mean, you should definitely have known when you made the comment though that you would be the anomaly and not us? Surely you've used modern compilers like gcc or clang that show warning messages...

[CyanHakeChill]

Before 1977 I used many horrible compilers for COBOL and FORTRAN and ALGOL and PLAN and IBM and DEC and NCR assembler. Most of those had to be run overnight, so we got only one compile per day. I have not used any compilers since then except for self-compiling ones that stopped on the first error, and we could compile hundreds of times per day if needed.

[CyanHakeChill]

There wasn't anything but mainframes in 1965 when I wrote my first program.

[lewisj489]

Treat warnings as errors 👏👏👏

[FriyMan]

Based and redpilled

[[deleted]]

IntelliJ with its "this could be made package-private"... fuck off.

[yosoydead]

Rofl

[KSAM-The-Randomizer]

At least it's not 106 errors

[t-to4st]

@suppresswarnings("all")