[Development] Compiler warnings

[Christian Kandeler]

On 10/17/2014 08:48 AM, Kurt Pattyn wrote:
> As we are developing for aerospace, avionics, defence and healthcare, we are confronted on a daily basis with a lot of very stringent rules that we have to comply with (irrespective if some people might find these rules outdated, stupid, ridiculous or not). That's why we always compile with as much compiler warnings as possible. Our code must be audited by an external office anyways, so we better make sure we can avoid a bad report as soon as possible.
> Some examples of 'stupid' rules (which after second consideration aren't that stupid after all):
> - a switch statement must always have a default statement (also all cases must be handled)

Doesn't this actually make the code *worse* when using enums? Adding a 
default statement when you handle all possible values will inhibit 
genuine compiler warnings when you forget to add a case for a newly 
added enum value. In fact, this is almost guaranteed to happen in a 
non-trivial project, so this rule seems almost absurdly wrong to me.


Christian