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Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?

From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:36:00 +1000
Subject: Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
References: <20020603073501.A9892@disaster.basement.lan> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206031312070.30324-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <200206031413.KAA10829@caip.rutgers.edu>

On 03-Jun-2002, Kaveh R. Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Adding -Wextra as an alias for -W is fine, but IMHO removing -W is
> not.  Why invalidate people's Makefiles and configure scripts that
> have worked for a decade?  For the same reason, we should not issue a
> "deprecated" warning when using -W.

I agree.

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.

References:
- Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
  - From: Phil Edwards
- Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
  - From: Kaveh R. Ghazi

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