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Re: RFC: should we use -Werror? (& sample patch to do it)
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Subject: Re: RFC: should we use -Werror? (& sample patch to do it)
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 07:31:26 +0100
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200109050332.XAA14648@caip.rutgers.edu>
Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:-
> I also added a mechanism to disable -Werror on a per-triplet basis or
> per autoconf test basis. E.g. if the HOST_PTR_PRINTF autoconf test
> fails, you are guaranteed to get some format specifier warnings. So I
> automatically disabled -Werror in that case. Also if a platform is
> hopelessly broken, you can disable -Werror in config.gcc for that
> triplet.
I would imagine that it would be better to do it the other way; I think
it is really only realistic to enable it on a per-triplet basis and
default to off.
Neil.