Is it a good idea to eliminate compiler warnings?

Question

In the past I\'ve worked with -Wall and other switches for gcc to eliminate every compiler warning for projects I\'ve been involved in. Similarly, in Perl, I always program wit

Answer 1

Is this worth a programmer's time? Will a project really be much better if you track down every single compiler warning?

Yes. Even the trivial ones about sign mismatch can have profound impact on code generation and optimizations.