[Ffmpeg-devel] Compiler warnings (was: time for a release?)

[Dieter]

>> It is good practice to keep harmless warnings away.  That way, the
>> real ones are more easily noticed.

YES!

> The easy way to silence the rest of the warnings is to supply
> the -Wno-pointer-sign option to gcc

Can you guarantee that every possible pointer-sign warning
now and in the future will be harmless?  If so, why do
pointer-sign warnings exist?