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Re: examples compiler warnings

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:19:13 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Yang Tse wrote:

>> There's just no easy and good-looking way to do this. Internally in libcurl
>> we've solved this by having our own portable *printf() but in the examples
>> we better not do it that way...
>
> Why not use curlx.h and associated *.c files as source code? It is
> documented this can be used in this way. Or are there other reasons I'm
> missing now?

I prefer to have the examples stand-alone and without any added complexity. I
actually rather let them have compiler warnings than make them bigger or
harder to read (if I have to pick one of those alternatives).

They're just examples showing how to use the libcurl API.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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