Re: cpplib: Start moving switch handling to front ends

[Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:-

> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:59:02AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > >If everybody thinks, it is not OK then I will change it to 
> > >-Wno-pound-warnings.
> > 
> > "pound" is somewhat cultural - I think of the char as "sharp" (musical),
> > and H-P called it "hash".  If we do this, we should use terminology from
> > the language definition and call it -Wno-warning-directives.
> 
> I was considering suggesting -Wno-user-warnings, but I like your
> spelling better.  And I do not have a problem with FSF GCC accepting
> -Wno-#warnings as long as there is an alternate spelling that doesn't
> use shell metacharacters, too.  (Neil is free to disagree.)  Note that

Fine by me.  I will, however, feel free to deprecate and eventually
remove the more trivial -W options that are rendered redundant when
we all finally agree on a generic suppression mechanism 8-)

Neil.