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Re: [PATCH/fortran] Add option to make 1st error fatal
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu (Steve Kargl)
- Cc: pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu (Andrew Pinski), fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:17:30 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH/fortran] Add option to make 1st error fatal
>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:55:00PM -0500, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > > Here's a new patch based on feedback from Andrew Pinski on IRC.
> > > Bubblestrap and regression tested on i386-*-freebsd.
> >
> > -Werror does not do what option does. It just changes warnings
> > to be considered an error for the return value.
>
> According to 'tkinfo gcc',
>
> `-Werror'
> Make all warnings into hard errors. Source code which triggers
> warnings will be rejected.
>
> This is exactly what my patch does. A warning becomes a fatal
> error.
No, it turns them into normal errors and not fatal errors.
>
> > And you really don't need to document these options as they are
> > generic options.
>
> It's a PITA to get Fortran users to read a Fortran manual, I
> suspect most would not read what would appear to be a C
> compiler's manual.
Well it is too late to change that, oh well. Maybe for
4.2, this should change.
-- Pinski