Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:56:36PM +0200, Andrea 'Fyre Wyzard' Bocci wrote:
> 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.

As an aside, I have to wonder how

    Give -W a better name, like -Wextra.

made it into the online "suggested changes" list, since nobody seems to
want to actually change it...


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

Of course.


Phil

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