Carbonaro, Tony writes: > We have a conflict here at work. Our SQA says that, when using gcc, > you have to specify warnings be used (i.e. -Wall). SQA says that if > you do not specify any warnings at compile time, then you won't get > any - except of course, in the case of actual errors which prevent > successful compile/link. No, that is not true. Some warnings are on by default. Most aren't. > Others say that -Wall is the default. You don't even have to ask > for it, you just get it automatically. Essentially, their position > is that "gcc buildme.cpp" is the exact same thing as "gcc -Wall > buildme.cpp". No, that is not true either. -Wall isn't the default. -Wall produces a lot of extra warnings. Andrew.
