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Re: RFC: Named warnings

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:39:19AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> 
> | > Oh, we should get Phil's -Wextra patch in first (or did it finally get
> | > approved?)
> | 
> | Never did.
> 
> How would that be different from -W ?

It isn't; that's the point.  One of the "beginner's projects" is to
rename -W (which doesn't communicate anything) to -Wextra (which does).
I had some free time one day and decided to knock that one off.


Phil

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