On 26/04/2017 23:46, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:43:57PM +0200, Mason wrote: >> + Jakub, Martin, Joseph >> >> Is it supposed to be possible to downgrade an unrecognized option >> from error to warning? >> >> What I would like is being able to pass >> -Wall -Werror -Wno-error=misleading-indentation >> to any version of gcc. > > Even when we change it now, we don't have a time machine, so all past > versions would still reject it. You're right, of course. I was thinking that such a feature could be back-ported to 5.x, 6.x, 7.x so that, in 3-5 years, when 5.x is considered "ancient", people can safely use the feature. Regards.