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Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?

From: "Andrea 'Fyre Wyzard' Bocci" <fwyzard at inwind dot it>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 19:56:36 +0200
Subject: Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
References: <20020604112958.A19756@disaster.basement.lan>

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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