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Re: examples compiler warnings

From: John P. Hartmann <jphartmann_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:52:11 +0100

Please put that disclaimer at
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/example.html and avoid cluttering each
sample file with it.

On 23 September 2011 23:29, Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
>> That's kind of what I'm thinking as well. The examples need to
>> remain simple and the focus needs to be on the libcurl API.
>
>> In fact, that's also why we don't do proper error checking etc in
>> most of the examples, even though of course we encourage all users
>> to do that in real life.
>
>
>
> How about a brief, boilerplate comment in each example mentioning the
> standpoint on compiler warnings and error checking?
>
> /*
>  * NOTE: This file is intended as an example only. In the interest of
>  * simplicity and clarity, it might not include proper error handling
>  * and might produce compiler warnings on some platforms. Real-world
>  * applications should pay more attention to these issues.
>  */
>
>
>  - Jeff
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