On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/23/2012 02:37 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> If you don't want to know about potential problems, you don't have to >> use -Weverything (or -Wall -Wextra). Folks who are interested in all >> potential problems could use it (if available). > > I don't think so, given the variety of odd style warnings. > > I'm not even sure that the warnings are compatible with each other! > Anyone who just turns on *everything* is probably either doing so > because they're clueless because or a pointy-haired boss said "no > warnings." I fall into the later (but I'm not a boss). A clean compile is a security gate. When I start seeing problems with, for example, -Wconversion, I start questioning the lack of attention to detail and wonder if I'm dealing with a lazy or sloppy programmer or someone who has thought each warning through. I then write a negative test case and usually find its a sloppy programmer. Jeff
