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Re: cpplib: Start moving switch handling to front ends


On 08-Aug-2002, Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com> wrote:
> If we're willing to touch the warnings in GCC, we could add an
> official name to each one that we want to control, so for instance
> you would say
> 
>  warning ("comparison-always-true",
>    "comparison is always true due to limited range of data type");
> 
> and that would automatically create -Wcomparison-always-true and
> add to a warning control pragma.

I like this idea.

It might be nice to combine this with another option called say
"-Wprint-warning-names", which would ensure that compiler
diagnostics included the names of the warnings, e.g.

	foo.c:123: warning (comparison-always-true): comparison is always
	true due to limited range of data type

I also prefer warning names to warning numbers.

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