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Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?

From: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:02:17 -0700
Subject: Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
Organization: The Eyrie
References: <20020603073501.A9892@disaster.basement.lan><Pine.LNX.4.33.0206031312070.30324-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk><200206031413.KAA10829@caip.rutgers.edu>

Kaveh R Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> writes:

> Adding -Wextra as an alias for -W is fine, but IMHO removing -W is not.
> Why invalidate people's Makefiles and configure scripts that have worked
> for a decade?  For the same reason, we should not issue a "deprecated"
> warning when using -W.

Well, I think it mostly depends on whether you see any utility in
recovering -W to mean what -Wall currently means.  If that's the long term
goal, -W needs to be deprecated and then removed entirely for a release or
two, IMO, before it changes functionality.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

References:
- Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
  - From: Phil Edwards
- Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: Rename -W to -Wextra ?
  - From: Kaveh R. Ghazi

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