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Re: PATCH: Wno-warning-directives [WasRe: cpplib: Start moving ...]
- From: "Mark D. Baushke" <mdb at gnu dot org>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, Devang Patel <dpatel at apple dot com>, "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:42:27 -0700
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Wno-warning-directives [WasRe: cpplib: Start moving ...]
- References: <53310000.1029265841@warlock.codesourcery.com>
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> > Apple GCC has the features, but we offer them for FSF GCC in the
> > belief that if they're useful at Apple, they're quite possibly
> > useful elsewhere.
>
> But so far the consensus here seems to be that people don't see this
> new switch as useful elsewhere. So, that's the kind of thing that's
> perfect for Apple GCC -- something useful to Apple but not elsewhere.
>
> (If I misread the consensus, I apologize; I may have missed messages
> in the thread.)
I am not working with Apple stuff, but I would find this patch useful.
> Nobody is suggesting we not add functionality to the compiler; we're
> all working on that all the time. The question is what functionality.
In the general case, I would like to see the interactions of warnings
and errors revisited. One master switch (-Werror) to rule that all
warnings should be treated as errors just does not work as more and more
warnings are added to the system.
-- Mark