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Re: [PATCH] prevent -Wall from resetting -Wstringop-overflow=2 to 1 (pr 81345)


On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Martin Sebor wrote:

> On 07/07/2017 10:58 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > This patch is OK.
> > 
> 
> Thanks.  Committed in r250104.
> 
> Do you have any comments on or concerns with changing how
> LangEnabledBy interprets the opt argument as I suggested below?
> 
>   IMO, it makes little sense for an option that takes an argument
>   and that specifies a binary option like -Wall in LangEnabledBy
>   to default to the binary value of the latter option.  I think
>   it would be more intuitive and convenient for it to default to
>   the value set by its Init directive for the positive form of
>   the binary option and to zero for the negative form (or to empty
>   for strings, if that's ever done).

I'm uneasy about the notion of -Wall implying an option that's 
on-by-default at all.  If it's on-by-default, why should -Wall have 
anything to do with it?  (Resetting from 2 to 1 is obviously wrong.)  
Such an implication only makes sense to me if -Wall implies a *different* 
(presumably higher) value than the default.  And in the case of Init(-1) 
(for special logic to initialize an option), copying the Init value 
certainly doesn't make sense in an implication.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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