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Re: Should -Wjump-misses-init be in -Wall?


On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Ian Lance Taylor<iant@google.com> wrote:
> I recently added the new -Wjump-misses-init warning option. ?It warns
> when a goto or switch jumps into the scope of an initialized variable
> without actually initializing the variable. ?I added the warning to
> -Wall because it seems to me to fit the criteria of -Wall: a dubious
> code practice which is easy to avoid.
>
> H.J. filed PR 40500 about this, arguing that this warning should not be
> in -Wall.
>
> Any opinions on this? ?Should I take the new warning out of -Wall?

Historically, many C programmers have resisted that idea (even when we could
argue that it really is bad style programming.)   I would suggest to add it to
-Wextra as opposed to -Wall.

-- Gaby


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