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Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- To: ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu (Kaveh R. Ghazi)
- Cc: rra at stanford dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 22:51:24 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
> > Well, I think it mostly depends on whether you see any utility in
> > recovering -W to mean what -Wall currently means. If that's the long
> > term goal, -W needs to be deprecated and then removed entirely for a
> > release or two, IMO, before it changes functionality.
Kaveh writes:
> I think changing -W to mean something different is an even worse idea
> than eliminating it. :-(
I don't think that eliminating -W is an option at all. We're stuck with
it. We could add -Wextra as a synonym, but that's about it. It's too
commonly used and has been in gcc for over a decade.