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Re: suggest gcc option -Wallall to add absolutely every -W* option
- To: engstad at intermetrics dot com, oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br
- Subject: Re: suggest gcc option -Wallall to add absolutely every -W* option
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:49:55 -0800
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com, vonbrand at inf dot utfsm dot cl, wheeler at ipl dot rpi dot edu
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:55:16 -0800
> From: Pal-Kristian Engstad <engstad@intermetrics.com>
> Then why not move -Wall to -Wuseful, and let -Wall be all warnings
> possible?
I wasn't going to comment, but let me comment anyway, as it is more a
meta comment.
This violates one of the fundemental principals of the software
programming, don't break the documentation, unless you are really,
really, really sure. A whim doesn't cut it. Do you have more than a
mere whim? The burden is on people who want to violate the
documentation to show that it is better, not just a little tiny bit
better or that it makes a tiny bit more sense.
The world does like a little long term stability.