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Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?


At 17:35 04/06/2002 +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Phil Edwards wrote:

> - for --help output and in the manual, only describe -Wextra

You need to keep docs for -W in the manual so that someone seeing a
reference to -W (e.g. in a Makefile) can look it up and see what that
option does.

OK, but you can deprecate it in the manual, or list it for backward compatibility only.

.fw.




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