Hooray for compiler flags

[Jonathan "Duke" Leto]

Howdy,

Thanks for this awesome work, Andy. I have added a summary of the new
compiler flags to the ChangeLog.

Duke

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com> wrote:
> I've been adding more and more compiler flags for safety.  I know some of 'em are breaking the builds, but I think that when we get through with it, Parrot will be much safer.
>
> Example:  I added a flag that makes it an error to call a function for which there has been no declaration.  Imagine that, right?  Apparently we've never had this error on before.  So it turns out that on BSD we were calling pthread_sigmask() without ever having #included a declaration.  Here's the failure: http://tt.taptinder.org/cmdinfo/72837  The fix: Add an include on pthread.h, and all is happy.
>
> So here's hoping that these more stringent compile settings prevent more bugs in the future, catching them as compile failures rather than having weird stuff turn up when they build incorrectly.
>
> Thanks,
> xoxo,
> Andy
>
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