On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10 August 2011 04:15, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> How does one get all warnings out of GCC? -Wall does not do it, and >> -Wextra does not do it. Is there a -Wall++ or -Wextra++? I find it >> maddening I can't get GCC to give me everything (I can chose to back >> off what does not matter at a later date). Or maybe worded >> differently: I can't figure out what makes up 'everything' in GCC in >> the context of warnings. >> >> Even better, I want a method that works now and in the future. That >> is, when a warning is added to GCC, it is also added to -Wall++ so I >> don't have to go to specify -Wall++ -Wnew-warning? > > They're all listed in the manual. If you really want every warning, > some of which give too many false positives or are only useful to some > people, then just go through the manual and add them all. This is probably going to sound like a dumb question, but here goes: why doen't GCC offer a switch to enable all warnings? And even better, Why was -Wall named -Wall - wouldn't -Wsome be better? Jeff
