Re: compiler warnings for regex.c

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:59:51 -0400
>
> > /project/mule/fsf-emacs/lib-src/../src/regex.c:5584: warning: 
> > initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> > 
> > Are they harmless?
> 
> No, they are not, which is why they're there.
> They mean that re_match is not reentrant.

Sorry, I don't understand.  Why do we need to see a warning to know
that re_match is non-reentrant?

I think there should be no warnings during normal compilation.
Warnings should be taken care of, not disregarded; the latter obscures
real warnings.