John (Eljay) Love-Jensen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > [Tom]> I think most long term developers really just want the warnings for > two things. Things that are undefined behaviour, and things that are likely > a typo... > > I don¹t mind keeping -Wall with the current meaning, and not deprecating it. > > I, as a long term developer who has been developing for over 30 years, and > in C/C++ for over 20 years, using GCC since 2.95 came out, do wish that > there was a -Weverything flag that enabled all -W* toggle warnings. > > Why? > > Because I use GCC as a lint-like tool. > > I like to be able to see what warnings my code generates, vet those warnings > and vet my code, then decide to disable the warning or fix my code. Hmm. I don't know that some warnings may not be contradictory: damned if you do, damned if you don't. I wonder. Andrew.
